Nicolas Boichat <drink...@chromium.org> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:44 PM Nicolas Boichat <drink...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:22 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriq...@suse.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:00:54PM -0500, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:25 AM Luis Henriques <lhenriq...@suse.de>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > A regression has been reported by Nicolas Boichat, found while using
>> > > > the
>> > > > copy_file_range syscall to copy a tracefs file. Before commit
>> > > > 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices") the
>> > > > kernel would return -EXDEV to userspace when trying to copy a file
>> > > > across
>> > > > different filesystems. After this commit, the syscall doesn't fail
>> > > > anymore
>> > > > and instead returns zero (zero bytes copied), as this file's content is
>> > > > generated on-the-fly and thus reports a size of zero.
>> > > >
>> > > > This patch restores some cross-filesystem copy restrictions that
>> > > > existed
>> > > > prior to commit 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy
>> > > > across
>> > > > devices"). Filesystems are still allowed to fall-back to the VFS
>> > > > generic_copy_file_range() implementation, but that has now to be done
>> > > > explicitly.
>> > > >
>> > > > nfsd is also modified to fall-back into generic_copy_file_range() in
>> > > > case
>> > > > vfs_copy_file_range() fails with -EOPNOTSUPP or -EXDEV.
>> > > >
>> > > > Fixes: 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across
>> > > > devices")
>> > > > Link:
>> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210212044405.4120619-1-drink...@chromium.org/
>> > > > Link:
>> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CANMq1KDZuxir2LM5jOTm0xx+BnvW=zmpsg47cyhfjwnw7zs...@mail.gmail.com/
>> > > > Link:
>> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210126135012.1.If45b7cdc3ff707bc1efa17f5366057d60603c45f@changeid/
>> > > > Reported-by: Nicolas Boichat <drink...@chromium.org>
>> > > > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriq...@suse.de>
>> > >
>> > > I tested v8 and I believe it works for NFS.
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot for the testing. And to everyone else for reviews,
>> > feedback,... and patience.
>>
>> Thanks so much to you!!!
>>
>> Works here, you can add my
>> Tested-by: Nicolas Boichat <drink...@chromium.org>
>
> What happened to this patch? It does not seem to have been picked up
> yet? Any reason why?
Hmm... good question. I'm not actually sure who would be picking it. Al,
maybe...?
Cheers,
--
Luis
>
>> >
>> > I'll now go look into the manpage and see what needs to be changed.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > --
>> > Luís
