# Re: \[PATCH v5 8/9\] vfs: Add vfs\_copy\_file\_range() support for pagecache copies

- From: Anna Schumaker \<hidden\>
- Date: 2015-10-13 19:45:28 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2015/10/100599
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2015/10/100599/t.md

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On 10/07/2015 09:40 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
> Anna Schumaker [ref] writes:
> 
>> @@ -1338,34 +1362,26 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
>>  			    struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out,
>>  			    size_t len, unsigned int flags)
>>  {
>> -	struct inode *inode_in;
>> -	struct inode *inode_out;
>>  	ssize_t ret;
>>  
>> -	if (flags)
>> +	/* Flags should only be used exclusively. */
>> +	if ((flags & COPY_FR_COPY) && (flags & ~COPY_FR_COPY))
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +	if ((flags & COPY_FR_REFLINK) && (flags & ~COPY_FR_REFLINK))
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +	if ((flags & COPY_FR_DEDUP) && (flags & ~COPY_FR_DEDUP))
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>  
> 
> Do you also need:
> 
>    if (flags & ~(COPY_FR_COPY | COPY_FR_REFLINK | COPY_FR_DEDUP))
>    	return -EINVAL;
> 
> so that future user-space can test if the kernel supports new flags?

Probably.  I'll add that in!

Thanks,
Anna

> 
> NeilBrown
> 
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