linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Hook up splice

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Message-ID: <20210331144453.GA9931@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:44:53 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "William A . Kennington III" <wak@...gle.com>,
        Lei YU <mine260309@...il.com>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Hook up splice_write callback

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:31:00PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> The same goes for quite a few other filesystems, actually - at least
> adfs, affs, bfs, hfs, hfsplus, hostfs, hpfs, minix, omfs, sysv, ufs 
> and vboxsf are in the same boat, and I suspect that ecryptfs and ntfs
> might be too.
> 
> Christoph, do you see any problems with doing the same thing for that
> bunch as well?

Linus asked to only fix things up where we get reports, but I think his
intent there was more random procfs and debugfs files rather than file
systems.  So just doing the sweep should be fine.