# \[RFC PATCH v2 02/48\] iov\_iter: Remove last\_offset member

- From: David Howells \<dhowells@redhat.com\>
- Date: 2023-03-29 14:16:43 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/03/246384
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/03/246383/t.md

```text
With the removal of ITER_PIPE, the last_offset member of struct iov_iter is
no longer used, so remove it and un-unionise the remaining member.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: <redacted>
cc: <redacted>
cc: <redacted>
cc: <redacted>
---
 include/linux/uio.h | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 74598426edb4..2d8a70cb9b26 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -43,10 +43,7 @@ struct iov_iter {
 	bool nofault;
 	bool data_source;
 	bool user_backed;
-	union {
-		size_t iov_offset;
-		int last_offset;
-	};
+	size_t iov_offset;
 	size_t count;
 	union {
 		const struct iovec *iov;

```