On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 03:13:39PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > Greg, > > The recent history of copy_file_range() API is somewhat convoluted. > The API changes are documented in copy_file_range(2) man page. > I've just posted a man page update patch [1] to fix some wrong kernel > version references in the man page. > > The problem is that it took many kernel releases to get reports on the > regression from v5.3 and yet more releases (v5.12..v5.19) to work on > the solution and get it merged. > > This situation leads to confusion among users as can be seen in [2]. > You've already picked the patch [1/2] to 5.15.y and I sent you a > request to pick patch [2/2] (from v6.1) as well. > > Following are backports of the two patches to 5.10.y, which I verified > with the relevant test in fstests. All now queued up, thanks. greg k-h
