Re: copy_file_range() errno changes introduced in v5.3-rc1

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:19 PM Petr Vorel <pvorel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Darrick,
>
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 05:56:08PM +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > > Hi Amir,
>
> > > I'm going to fix LTP test copy_file_range02 before upcoming LTP release.
> > > There are some returning errno changes introduced in v5.3-rc1, part of commit 40f06c799539
> > > ("Merge tag 'copy-file-range-fixes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux").
> > > These changes looks pretty obvious as wanted, but can you please confirm it they were intentional?
>
> > > * 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices") started to return -EXDEV.

Started to return EXDEV?? quite the opposite.
But LTP tests where already adapted to that behavior AFAICT:
15cac7b46 syscalls/copy_file_range01: add cross-device test


> > > * 96e6e8f4a68d ("vfs: add missing checks to copy_file_range") started to return -EPERM, -ETXTBSY, -EOVERFLOW.
>
> > I'm not Amir, but by my recollection, yes, those are intentional. :)
> Thanks for a quick confirmation.
>

Which reminds me - I forgot to send the man pages patch out to maintainer:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190529174318.22424-15-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx/

At least according to man page -EACCES is also possible.

Thanks,
Amir.



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