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Commit 868f9f2f authored by Amir Goldstein's avatar Amir Goldstein Committed by Linus Torvalds
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vfs: fix copy_file_range() regression in cross-fs copies

A regression has been reported by Nicolas Boichat, found while using the
copy_file_range syscall to copy a tracefs file.

Before commit 5dae222a ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across
devices") the kernel would return -EXDEV to userspace when trying to
copy a file across different filesystems.  After this commit, the
syscall doesn't fail anymore and instead returns zero (zero bytes
copied), as this file's content is generated on-the-fly and thus reports
a size of zero.

Another regression has been reported by He Zhe - the assertion of
WARN_ON_ONCE(ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) can be triggered from userspace when
copying from a sysfs file whose read operation may return -EOPNOTSUPP.

Since we do not have test coverage for copy_file_range() between any two
types of filesystems, the best way to avoid these sort of issues in the
future is for the kernel to be more picky about filesystems that are
allowed to do copy_file_range().

This patch restores som...
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