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The v9fs file operations were missing the splice_read operations, which breaks sendfile() of files on such a filesystem. I discovered this while trying to load an eBPF program using iproute2 inside a 'virtme' environment which uses 9pfs for the virtual file system. iproute2 relies on sendfile() with an AF_ALG socket to hash files, which was erroring out in the virtual environment. Since generic_file_splice_read() seems to just implement splice_read in terms of the read_iter operation, I simply added the generic implementation to the file operations, which fixed the error I was seeing. A quick grep indicates that this is what most other file systems do as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201201135409.55510-1-toke@redhat.com Fixes: 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops") Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.