From 06ae43f34bcc07a0b6be8bf78a1c895bcd12c839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:19:30 -0400 Subject: Don't bother with redoing rw_verify_area() from default_file_splice_from() default_file_splice_from() ends up calling vfs_write() (via very convoluted callchain). It's an overkill, since we already have done rw_verify_area() in the caller by the time we call vfs_write() we are under set_fs(KERNEL_DS), so access_ok() is also pointless. Add a new helper (__kernel_write()), use it instead of kernel_write() in there. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/internal.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/internal.h') diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h index 507141fceb99..4be78237d896 100644 --- a/fs/internal.h +++ b/fs/internal.h @@ -125,3 +125,8 @@ extern int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *, bool); * dcache.c */ extern struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *); + +/* + * read_write.c + */ +extern ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b