On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 03:08:42AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > What am I missing here? Looks like those checks in fuse_copy_page() are > dead code... They had been there since the initial merge, but AFAICS > they were just as useless in 2.6.14. Rudiments of some prehistorical stuff > that never had been cleaned out, perhaps? Yep, that one is probably historical. I'll double check to make sure, though. Thanks, Miklos