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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/read_write.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/read_write.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index 7783b8522693..e3abf603eaaf 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -1396,40 +1396,6 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sendfile64, int, out_fd, int, in_fd, } #endif -/** - * generic_copy_file_range - copy data between two files - * @file_in: file structure to read from - * @pos_in: file offset to read from - * @file_out: file structure to write data to - * @pos_out: file offset to write data to - * @len: amount of data to copy - * @flags: copy flags - * - * This is a generic filesystem helper to copy data from one file to another. - * It has no constraints on the source or destination file owners - the files - * can belong to different superblocks and different filesystem types. Short - * copies are allowed. - * - * This should be called from the @file_out filesystem, as per the - * ->copy_file_range() method. - * - * Returns the number of bytes copied or a negative error indicating the - * failure. - */ - -ssize_t generic_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in, - struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out, - size_t len, unsigned int flags) -{ - /* May only be called from within ->copy_file_range() methods */ - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags)) - return -EINVAL; - - return splice_file_range(file_in, &pos_in, file_out, &pos_out, - min_t(size_t, len, MAX_RW_COUNT)); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_copy_file_range); - /* * Performs necessary checks before doing a file copy * |