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[10/11] vfs: allow generic_copy_file_range to copy across devices

Message ID 20181203083416.28978-11-david@fromorbit.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series fs: fixes for major copy_file_range() issues | expand

Commit Message

Dave Chinner Dec. 3, 2018, 8:34 a.m. UTC 
From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

do_splice_direct() can copy across superblocks without problems.
Remove the same superblock restriction on this fallback code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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 fs/read_write.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Amir Goldstein Dec. 3, 2018, 12:54 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:34 AM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> do_splice_direct() can copy across superblocks without problems.
> Remove the same superblock restriction on this fallback code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Amir.
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 4e0666de0d69..b0f231b10836 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1565,10 +1565,6 @@  ssize_t generic_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
 			    struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out,
 			    size_t len, unsigned int flags)
 {
-	/* Temporary, do_splice_direct supports cross-sb copies */
-	if (file_inode(file_in)->i_sb != file_inode(file_out)->i_sb)
-		return -EXDEV;
-
 	return do_splice_direct(file_in, &pos_in, file_out, &pos_out,
 			len > MAX_RW_COUNT ? MAX_RW_COUNT : len, 0);
 }