Re: [PATCH 03/25] vfs: check file ranges before cloning files

Amir Goldstein
2018-10-11T14:13:44Z

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:43 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_clone_file_prep_inodes);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_clone_file_prep);
>
> Btw, why isn't this EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? It is rather Linux internal
> code, including some that I wrote which you lifted into the core
> in "vfs: refactor clone/dedupe_file_range common functions".

Because Al will shot down any attempt of those in vfs code:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/10/4

Thanks,
Amir.