Re: [PATCH 0/3] splice fixes

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:05:52 +0200
Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2010-06-29 14:05, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On 2010-06-29 13:08, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >>> These patches fix bugs that affect real-world users of splice(2) and
> >>> sendfile(2) interfaces.
> >>>
> >>> Not sure if some or all of them are appropriate for 2.6.35 and/or
> >>> -stable?
> >>
> >> I think that 1-2 should go into 2.6.35 directly, and 3 for .36 with
> >> a stable backport as well. Agree?
> > 
> > Yes, sounds good.
> 
> Good, that is what I queued up. I haven't pushed out the updated
> for-linus yet, since I asked Linus to pull it this morning.
> 

According to Tim's report on lkml
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/25/280),
cc56f7de7f00d188c7c4da1e9861581853b9e92f caused a regression. 
cc56f7de7f00d188c7c4da1e9861581853b9e92f is present in 2.6.33 and in
2.6.34 hence the fix should be backported into -stable.

According to http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588861, the patch "splice:
direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd" fixes the regression.

However this:

commit 4f9078afb4e083e033aafbbfabe729cb3832aa42
Author: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jun 29 13:09:18 2010 +0200

    splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd

went into mainline without a cc:stable tag.
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