On Sat 2020-10-17 17:13:20, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:48 PM Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >
> > But: you are the last one to sign it off, so I assume committed it to
> > git, and you are the one to talk to about fixing it.
>
> The thing is, the commit you point to - and the one I signed off on - is fine.
>
> The buggy one is in linux-next, which breaks that whole "NULL means no
> position" thing.
>
> IOW, the real bug is in commit 4d03e3cc5982 ("fs: don't allow kernel
> reads and writes without iter ops"), which does that bogus
>
> kiocb.ki_pos = *pos;
>
> and no, I never signed off on that.
>
> Get it? Stop confusing people. This bug does not exist in mainline,
> and never will. Because I'm not pulling that buggy commit.
And I guess that's a good thing. It is now fixed in -next, too. Sorry
for the noise.
Best regards,
Pavel
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