Subject: Re: sendfile from 9p fs into af_alg

From: Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:55:59 -0800

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:46:26AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 07:58:29PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> > 
> > it seems the following commit 523ac9afc73a ("switch default_file_splice_read() to use of pipe-backed iov_iter")
> > breaks sendfile from 9p fs into af_alg socket.
> > sendfile into af_alg is used by iproute2/tc.
> > I'm not sure whether it's 9p or crypto or vfs problem, but happy to test any patches.
> 
> Could you try -rc6 (or anything that contains 680bb946a1ae04, for that
> matter)?

already tested with that patch in the latest net-next. Still broken :(