Re: [PATCHSET 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 01:31:31PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We recently had a failure on a kernel upgrade because splice no longer
> works on random/urandom. This is due to:
> 
> 6e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops")
> 
> which already has more than two handful of Fixes registered to its
> name...

Yes.  It was a hard break to get rid of set_fs and it's abuse.