Re: [PATCH 2/2] overlayfs -- follow change to do_splice_directinterface

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 13:22:56 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 06:37:45PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Thanks for the patches, Andy. I already pushed a similar set of fixes
> to overlayfs.current (.v18) and to .v17 for the dentry_open() refcount
> fix.

Bah so you did, that'll teach me for waiting for them to be tested.

> It is interesting how many people end up fixing this the wrong way ;)
>
> Hint: how will the file offsets advance?

Interesting I got bluffed in by the original implementation which
reloaded the source pos each time.

-apw
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/