Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: prevent copy_file_range to copy across devices

From: Steve French
Date: Thu Feb 18 2021 - 15:45:20 EST


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 4:03 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:42 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Looks good:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> >
> > This whole idea of cross-device copie has always been a horrible idea,
> > and I've been arguing against it since the patches were posted.
>
> Ok. I'm good with this v2 as well, but need to add the fallback to
> do_splice_direct()
> in nfsd_copy_file_range(), because this patch breaks it.

Interestingly, for ksmbd (cifsd) looks like they already do splice not
copy_file_range


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Thanks,

Steve