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[v3,7/9] vfs: Remove copy_file_range mountpoint checks

Message ID 1443214096-12769-8-git-send-email-Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Schumaker, Anna Sept. 25, 2015, 8:48 p.m. UTC 
I still want to do an in-kernel copy even if the files are on different
mountpoints, and NFS has a "server to server" copy that expects two
files on different mountpoints.  Let's have individual filesystems
implement this check instead.

Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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 fs/read_write.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 6f74f1f..ee9fa37 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1366,11 +1366,6 @@  ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
 	    pos_in + len > i_size_read(inode_in))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/* this could be relaxed once a method supports cross-fs copies */
-	if (inode_in->i_sb != inode_out->i_sb ||
-	    file_in->f_path.mnt != file_out->f_path.mnt)
-		return -EXDEV;
-
 	if (len == 0)
 		return 0;