Re: [PATCH v12 01/17] fs: export rw_verify_area()

[Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 03:57:14PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 12:19:11PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
> > 
> > I'm adding Btrfs ioctls to read and write compressed data, and rather
> > than duplicating the checks in rw_verify_area(), let's just export it.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
> > --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> > @@ -3244,6 +3244,7 @@ extern loff_t fixed_size_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
> >  		int whence, loff_t size);
> >  extern loff_t no_seek_end_llseek_size(struct file *, loff_t, int, loff_t);
> >  extern loff_t no_seek_end_llseek(struct file *, loff_t, int);
> > +extern int rw_verify_area(int, struct file *, const loff_t *, size_t);
> 
> Do you have an ack from VFS people for exporting a function from
> fs/interna.h to the normal fs.h?

Nope, although I've sent it enough times that they should've nacked it
by now if they cared. I guess I didn't cc fsdevel on this version, so
I'll ping this patch on v11.