new privimitive: iov_iter_revert()

commit 27c0e3748e41ca79171ffa3e97415a20af6facd0 upstream.

opposite to iov_iter_advance(); the caller is responsible for never
using it to move back past the initial position.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 6e22b544d039..c146ebc69c53 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ struct iov_iter {
 	};
 	union {
 		unsigned long nr_segs;
-		int idx;
+		struct {
+			int idx;
+			int start_idx;
+		};
 	};
 };
 
@@ -81,6 +84,7 @@ unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);
 size_t iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(struct page *page,
 		struct iov_iter *i, unsigned long offset, size_t bytes);
 void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
+void iov_iter_revert(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
 int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
 size_t iov_iter_single_seg_count(const struct iov_iter *i);
 size_t copy_page_to_iter(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t bytes,