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Commit 6a3f30b8 authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells Committed by Jens Axboe
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splice: Make do_splice_to() generic and export it



Rename do_splice_to() to vfs_splice_read() and export it so that it can be
used as a helper when calling down to a lower layer filesystem as it
performs all the necessary checks[1].

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpeguGksS3sCigmRi9hJdUec8qtM9f+_9jC1rJhsXT+dV01w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-6-dhowells@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent e69f37bc
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