linux-kernel - Re: restore splice and sendfile support on kernfs

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:30:49 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Siddharth Gupta <sidgup@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: restore splice and sendfile support on kernfs

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:46:28PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Greg and Tejun,
> 
> this fixes a regression in Linux 5.10 that stopped sendfile and splice
> from working on kernfs/sysfs files.
> 
> Diffstt:
>  file.c |   65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Thanks for these, now queued up!

greg k-h