Re: [PATCH v21 05/30] splice: Make do_splice_to() generic and export it

Christian Brauner
2023-05-20T09:35:54Z

On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 01:00:24AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Rename do_splice_to() to vfs_splice_read() and export it so that it can be
> used as a helper when calling down to a lower layer filesystem as it
> performs all the necessary checks[1].
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpeguGksS3sCigmRi9hJdUec8qtM9f+_9jC1rJhsXT+dV01w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
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Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>