Patch "vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
vfs-deny-copy_file_range-for-non-regular-files.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:34:56 +0200
Subject: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files

From: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>

commit 11cbfb10775aa2a01cee966d118049ede9d0bdf2 upstream.

There is no in-tree file system that implements copy_file_range() for non regular files.

Deny an attempt to copy_file_range() a directory with EISDIR and any other non regualr file with EINVAL to conform with behavior of vfs_{clone,dedup}_file_range().

This change is needed prior to converting sb_start_write() to file_start_write() in the vfs helper.

---
 fs/read_write.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

@@ -1518,6 +1518,11 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file
 	if (flags != 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode_in->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode_out->i_mode))
+		return -EISDIR;
+	if (!S_ISREG(inode_in->i_mode) || !S_ISREG(inode_out->i_mode))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	ret = rw_verify_area(READ, file_in, &pos_in, len);
 	if (unlikely(ret))
 		return ret;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/vfs-deny-copy_file_range-for-non-regular-files.patch