The way to think about this is that the destination filesystem reads the
data from the source file and processes it accordingly. This is
especially important to avoid an infinate loop when doing a "server to
server" copy on NFS.
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <redacted>
---
fs/read_write.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 59637ed..9dafb7f 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1355,7 +1355,7 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
if (!(file_in->f_mode & FMODE_READ) ||
!(file_out->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) ||
(file_out->f_flags & O_APPEND) ||
- !file_in->f_op || !file_in->f_op->copy_file_range)
+ !file_out->f_op || !file_out->f_op->copy_file_range)
return -EBADF;
inode_in = file_inode(file_in);
@@ -1377,8 +1377,8 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
if (ret)
return ret;
- ret = file_in->f_op->copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out,
- len, flags);
+ ret = file_out->f_op->copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out,
+ len, flags);
if (ret > 0) {
fsnotify_access(file_in);
add_rchar(current, ret);--
2.5.1