The way to think about this is that the destination filesystem reads the data from the source file and processes it accordingly. This is especially important to avoid an infinate loop when doing a "server to server" copy on NFS. Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index d32549b..ac32388 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -1355,7 +1355,7 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in, if (!(file_in->f_mode & FMODE_READ) || !(file_out->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) || (file_out->f_flags & O_APPEND) || - !file_in->f_op || !file_in->f_op->copy_file_range) + !file_out->f_op || !file_out->f_op->copy_file_range) return -EBADF; inode_in = file_inode(file_in); @@ -1378,8 +1378,8 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in, if (ret) return ret; - ret = file_in->f_op->copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out, - len, flags); + ret = file_out->f_op->copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out, + len, flags); if (ret > 0) { fsnotify_access(file_in); add_rchar(current, ret); -- 2.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html