On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 14:19 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Slavomir Kaslev <kaslevs@xxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit ee5e001196d1345b8fee25925ff5f1d67936081e ] > > The current implementation of splice() and tee() ignores O_NONBLOCK > set > on pipe file descriptors and checks only the SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag > for > blocking on pipe arguments. This is inconsistent since splice()-ing > from/to non-pipe file descriptors does take O_NONBLOCK into > consideration. > > Fix this by promoting O_NONBLOCK, when set on a pipe, to > SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK. Hey Sasha, I don't think that this patch should be merged to stable kernels. It's more of a feature rather than a bug/regression fix and it changes how splice() has been working from day one. Can you please drop it from the stable queues? Thanks, -- Slavi
