Re: [PATCH] vfs: allow remap flags to be passed to vfs_clone_file_range

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:42:38PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In overlayfs, ovl_remap_file_range calls vfs_clone_file_range on the
> lower filesystem's inode, passing through whatever remap flags it got
> from its caller.  Since vfs_copy_file_range first tries a filesystem's
> remap function with REMAP_FILE_CAN_SHORTEN, this can get passed through
> to the second vfs_copy_file_range call, which isn't an issue.
> Remove the WARN_ON because it's unnecessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

This looks ok:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

But this also indicates that do_clone_file_range/vfs_clone_file_range
are misnamed now, as they are wrappers for the remap_file_range method.



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