Re: [PATCH 01/13] fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write

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To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:56:16 +0200
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20201003025534.21045-2-willy@infradead.org>
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)

On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 03:55:22AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Linus prefers that callers be allowed to pass in a NULL pointer for ppos
> like new_sync_write().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

References:
- [PATCH 00/13] Clean up kernel_read/kernel_write
  - From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
- [PATCH 01/13] fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write
  - From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

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