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* Please backport: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
@ 2017-10-08  1:19 Theodore Ts'o
  2017-10-10 18:06 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2017-10-08  1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable

Hi, please cherry pick the following upstream commit:

   11cbfb10775a: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files

to 3.18, 4.1, 4.4, and 4.9 LTS stable kernels.

It is needed to fix the following xfstests failure: generic/434

Many thanks,

					- Ted

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* Re: Please backport: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
  2017-10-08  1:19 Please backport: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files Theodore Ts'o
@ 2017-10-10 18:06 ` Greg KH
  2017-11-06  8:43   ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2017-10-10 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Theodore Ts'o; +Cc: stable

On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 09:19:33PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Hi, please cherry pick the following upstream commit:
> 
>    11cbfb10775a: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
> 
> to 3.18, 4.1, 4.4, and 4.9 LTS stable kernels.

It does not apply to the 3.18 or 4.4 stable kernels.  It worked for 4.9.
Don't care about 4.1 :)

Do you have a working backport anywhere?

thanks,

greg k-h

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* Re: Please backport: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
  2017-10-10 18:06 ` Greg KH
@ 2017-11-06  8:43   ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2017-11-06  8:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Theodore Ts'o; +Cc: stable

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 08:06:07PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 09:19:33PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Hi, please cherry pick the following upstream commit:
> > 
> >    11cbfb10775a: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
> > 
> > to 3.18, 4.1, 4.4, and 4.9 LTS stable kernels.
> 
> It does not apply to the 3.18 or 4.4 stable kernels.  It worked for 4.9.
> Don't care about 4.1 :)
> 
> Do you have a working backport anywhere?

To follow up with this, copy_file_ranges() showed up in the 4.5 kernel
release, so how is this a problem for older kernels than that?

thanks,

greg k-h

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