Re: [PATCH 5.10 0/2] cross-fs copy_file_range() fixes for stable

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-12-15T06:52:59Z

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 03:13:39PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Greg,
>
> The recent history of copy_file_range() API is somewhat convoluted.
> The API changes are documented in copy_file_range(2) man page.
> I've just posted a man page update patch [1] to fix some wrong kernel
> version references in the man page.
>
> The problem is that it took many kernel releases to get reports on the
> regression from v5.3 and yet more releases (v5.12..v5.19) to work on
> the solution and get it merged.
>
> This situation leads to confusion among users as can be seen in [2].
> You've already picked the patch [1/2] to 5.15.y and I sent you a
> request to pick patch [2/2] (from v6.1) as well.
>
> Following are backports of the two patches to 5.10.y, which I verified
> with the relevant test in fstests.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h