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Date:   Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:23:25 +0000
From:   Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
To:     Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:00:54PM -0500, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:25 AM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > A regression has been reported by Nicolas Boichat, found while using the
> > copy_file_range syscall to copy a tracefs file.  Before commit
> > 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices") the
> > kernel would return -EXDEV to userspace when trying to copy a file across
> > different filesystems.  After this commit, the syscall doesn't fail anymore
> > and instead returns zero (zero bytes copied), as this file's content is
> > generated on-the-fly and thus reports a size of zero.
> >
> > This patch restores some cross-filesystem copy restrictions that existed
> > prior to commit 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across
> > devices").  Filesystems are still allowed to fall-back to the VFS
> > generic_copy_file_range() implementation, but that has now to be done
> > explicitly.
> >
> > nfsd is also modified to fall-back into generic_copy_file_range() in case
> > vfs_copy_file_range() fails with -EOPNOTSUPP or -EXDEV.
> >
> > Fixes: 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices")
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210212044405.4120619-1-drinkcat@chromium.org/
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CANMq1KDZuxir2LM5jOTm0xx+BnvW=ZmpsG47CyHFJwnw7zSX6Q@mail.gmail.com/
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210126135012.1.If45b7cdc3ff707bc1efa17f5366057d60603c45f@changeid/
> > Reported-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
> 
> I tested v8 and I believe it works for NFS.

Thanks a lot for the testing.  And to everyone else for reviews,
feedback,... and patience.

I'll now go look into the manpage and see what needs to be changed.

Cheers,
--
Lu?s