linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH next] iov_iter: fix copy_page_from_iter

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Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2023 09:36:43 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] iov_iter: fix copy_page_from_iter_atomic()

On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:29:14AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> > -		__copy_from_iter(p, n, i);
> > +		n = __copy_from_iter(p, n, i);
> 
> Yeah, that looks right.  Can you fold it in, Christian?

Of course. Folded into
c9eec08bac96 ("iov_iter: Don't deal with iter->copy_mc in memcpy_from_iter_mc()")
on vfs.iov_iter.