On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:44:12AM +, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:06:24AM +, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Bellinger
> >
> > This patch adds a new memcpy_fromiovec_out() library function which modifies
> > the passed *iov following memcpy_fromiovec(), but also returns the next
> > current
> > iovec pointer via **iov_out.
> >
> > This is useful for vhost ANY_LAYOUT support when guests are allowed to
> > generate
> > incoming virtio request headers combined with subsequent SGL payloads into a
> > single iovec.
>
> Please, don't. Just use copy_from_iter(); you are open-coding an uglier
> variant of such.
PS: see vfs.git#for-davem (or postings on netdev with the same stuff).
I really hope to bury memcpy_...iovec...() crap for good; please, don't
reintroduce more of it.
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