On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:23:05 +0000 Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Some of the vfs.git#work.iov_iter stuff touches net/*; basically, > there are several missing primitives (copy_from_iter_full(), etc.) for > "try to copy, tell whether it has copied the full amount requested and > advance the iterator only in case of success". Most of the callers were > actually doing just that (see e.g. skb_add_data() and friends) and while > nothing in the current kernel cares whether we advance ->msg_iter on > failure, it's much more consistent semantics. > > If anybody has objections to that stuff (in linux-next, or in > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git#work.iov_iter), > or thinks that some of that should go via net-next.git, yell and I'll > drop the bits in question. If not, to Linus it all goes... Just some links to make it quicker for people see the three patches: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/log/?h=work.iov_iter Patches: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=work.iov_iter&id=cbbd26b8b1a http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=work.iov_iter&id=15e6cb46c9b http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=work.iov_iter&id=0b62fca2623 -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
