[git pull] vfs.git pile 3: splice-related bits and pieces

[git pull] vfs.git pile 3: splice-related bits and pieces

[Al Viro]

	Those actually missed the last cycle; the branch itself is
from last December.

The following changes since commit b4b8664d291ac1998e0f0bcdc96b6397f0fe68b3:

  arm64: don't pull uaccess.h into *.S (2016-12-26 13:05:17 -0500)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.splice

for you to fetch changes up to 13c0f52beb6310b9c08804c0929901f70abd211a:

  make nr_pages calculation in default_file_splice_read() a bit less ugly (2016-12-26 23:53:52 -0500)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Al Viro (4):
      remove spd_release_page()
      splice_pipe_desc: kill ->flags
      splice/tee/vmsplice: validate flags
      make nr_pages calculation in default_file_splice_read() a bit less ugly

 fs/splice.c            | 20 +++++++++++---------
 include/linux/splice.h |  4 ++--
 kernel/relay.c         |  1 -
 kernel/trace/trace.c   |  2 --
 net/core/skbuff.c      |  1 -
 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Re: [git pull] vfs.git pile 3: splice-related bits and pieces

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>         Those actually missed the last cycle; the branch itself is
> from last December.
>
> Al Viro (4):
>       splice/tee/vmsplice: validate flags

I'm not convinced every user does this right, and this might break
some splice-using app.

But with splice() being so special and unusual, I'm willing to at
least try it. But if somebody reports that something does break, this
gets reverted.

                 Linus