linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: guest_memfd: Remove redundant kvm_gmem

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Message-ID: <175089020166.723091.4300884010519691582.b4-ty@google.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:25:33 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, pbonzini@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shivank Garg <shivankg@....com>
Cc: bharata@....com, tabba@...gle.com, ackerleytng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: guest_memfd: Remove redundant kvm_gmem_getattr implementation

On Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:23:18 +0000, Shivank Garg wrote:
> Remove the redundant kvm_gmem_getattr() implementation that simply calls
> generic_fillattr() without any special handling. The VFS layer
> (vfs_getattr_nosec()) will call generic_fillattr() by default when no
> custom getattr operation is provided in the inode_operations structure.
> 
> This is a cleanup with no functional change.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 generic, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: guest_memfd: Remove redundant kvm_gmem_getattr implementation
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/87d4fbf4a387

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https://github.com/kvm-x86/kvm-unit-tests/tree/next