Re: [PATCH-RFC-RESEND 0/9] NFS/NFSD: add NFSv42 CLONE operation support

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:16:41PM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
> 2. vfs_file_clone_range() does not expect file systems to do data copy, and thus
> no rw_verify_area() required.

While there is no physical copy involved, the data logically is copied from
file A to file B.  So we still need all the checks from rw_verify_area.

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