Thanks for the patches, Andy.  I already pushed a similar set of fixes
to overlayfs.current (.v18) and to .v17 for the dentry_open() refcount
fix.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> wrote:
> The commit below changed the interface to do_splice_direct, follow that
> change in copy_up:
>
>   commit 7995bd287134f6c8f80d94bebe7396f05a9bc42b
>   Author: Al Viro <[email protected]>
>   Date:   Thu Jun 20 18:58:36 2013 +0400
>
>     splice: don't pass the address of ->f_pos to methods
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
> index eef85e0..8e1b09f 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
> @@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_data(struct path *old, struct path 
> *new, loff_t len)
>
>         /* FIXME: copy up sparse files efficiently */
>         while (len) {
> -               loff_t offset = new_file->f_pos;
>                 size_t this_len = OVL_COPY_UP_CHUNK_SIZE;
>                 long bytes;
> +               loff_t pos = old_file->f_pos;
> +               loff_t out_pos = new_file->f_pos;
>
>                 if (len < this_len)
>                         this_len = len;
> @@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_data(struct path *old, struct path 
> *new, loff_t len)
>                         break;
>                 }
>
> -               bytes = do_splice_direct(old_file, &offset, new_file, 
> this_len,
> +               bytes = do_splice_direct(old_file, &pos, new_file, &out_pos, 
> this_len,


It is interesting how many people end up fixing this the wrong way ;)

Hint: how will the file offsets advance?

Thanks,
Miklos
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