[PATCH v3 5/9] vfs: Copy shouldn't forbid ranges inside the same file
From: Anna Schumaker <hidden>
Date: 2015-09-25 20:48:11
Also in:
linux-btrfs, linux-fsdevel, linux-nfs
Subsystem:
filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds
This is perfectly valid for BTRFS and XFS, so let's leave this up to filesystems to check. Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <redacted> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> --- fs/read_write.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index f3d6c48..8e7cb33 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c@@ -1371,10 +1371,6 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in, file_in->f_path.mnt != file_out->f_path.mnt) return -EXDEV; - /* forbid ranges in the same file */ - if (inode_in == inode_out) - return -EINVAL; - if (len == 0) return 0;
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2.5.3