Re: problems with splice from /proc (was Linux 5.10-rc1)

Greg KH
2020-10-29T02:11:16Z

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 04:32:13PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:17:25AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > Ok, I couldn't get a clean merge of that old branch on top of your
> > 5.10-rc1 tree, so I can't give it a run-through. If you have an updated
> > series you want me to test, I'll be glad to do so.
>
> Can you give this branch a spin?
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/set_fs-proc

Sorry for the delay, took a while to get results due to other testing
errors...

Anyway, yes, this worked!

So feel free to add:

Tested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

If you send those out.

Now I ran into a fnctl test that is failing when reading trying to run
splice on /proc/version (crazy tests), let me go see if I can do the
same thing you did for cpuinfo for all proc "single data" files...

thanks,

greg k-h