Commit e6949583 authored Aug 13, 2009 by Linus Torvalds

Make sock_sendpage() use kernel_sendpage()



kernel_sendpage() does the proper default case handling for when the
socket doesn't have a native sendpage implementation.

Now, arguably this might be something that we could instead solve by
just specifying that all protocols should do it themselves at the
protocol level, but we really only care about the common protocols.
Does anybody really care about sendpage on something like Appletalk? Not
likely.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Julien TINNES <julien@cr0.org>
Acked-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent a3620f75

net/socket.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file file, struct page page,
		if (more)
		flags \|= MSG_MORE;

		return sock->ops->sendpage(sock, page, offset, size, flags);
		return kernel_sendpage(sock, page, offset, size, flags);
		}

		static ssize_t sock_splice_read(struct file file, loff_t ppos,

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