Those actually missed the last cycle; the branch itself is from last December. The following changes since commit b4b8664d291ac1998e0f0bcdc96b6397f0fe68b3: arm64: don't pull uaccess.h into *.S (2016-12-26 13:05:17 -0500) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.splice for you to fetch changes up to 13c0f52beb6310b9c08804c0929901f70abd211a: make nr_pages calculation in default_file_splice_read() a bit less ugly (2016-12-26 23:53:52 -0500) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Viro (4): remove spd_release_page() splice_pipe_desc: kill ->flags splice/tee/vmsplice: validate flags make nr_pages calculation in default_file_splice_read() a bit less ugly fs/splice.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- include/linux/splice.h | 4 ++-- kernel/relay.c | 1 - kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 -- net/core/skbuff.c | 1 - 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)