Re: [stable] splice vs O_APPEND

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:46:00AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > 
> > > The thing is, the append-only attribute is absolutely useless without
> > > being able to depend on it.  So in that sense I think the IS_APPEND
> > > issue is important, and I'm fine with your original proposal for that
> > > (except we don't need the IS_IMMUTABLE check).
> > 
> > Heh. In the meantime, I had grown to hate that more complex patch.
> > 
> > So because I do see your point with IS_APPEND (being different from 
> > O_APPEND), but because I also think that O_APPEND itself is a gray and 
> > murky area, I just committed the following. I doubt anybody will ever even 
> > notice it, but while I think it's all debatable, we might as well debate 
> > it with this in place. I do agree that it's "safer" behaviour.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I suspect this qualifies for stable kernels too.  Stable team, can you
> please add this to your queue?

Queue for which kernel releases?  .25, .26, and/or .27?

thanks,

greg k-h