linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/11] splice: don't check i_size in generic_file_splice

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Message-Id: <1473842236-28655-11-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:37:15 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 10/11] splice: don't check i_size in generic_file_splice_read()

This is handled in get_page_for_read() already.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
---
 fs/splice.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index e7757b363b6c..bee282803ccf 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -334,20 +334,11 @@ ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
 				 struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len,
 				 unsigned int flags)
 {
-	loff_t isize, left;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (IS_DAX(in->f_mapping->host))
 		return default_file_splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);
 
-	isize = i_size_read(in->f_mapping->host);
-	if (unlikely(*ppos >= isize))
-		return 0;
-
-	left = isize - *ppos;
-	if (unlikely(left < len))
-		len = left;
-
 	ret = __generic_file_splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);
 	if (ret > 0) {
 		*ppos += ret;
-- 
2.5.5