Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] vmsplice: make vmsplice a trivial wrapper for preadv2/pwritev2

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 11:12:01 -0700

On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 21:20:13 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> They were all in the networking and crypto code that just didn't deal
> with shared data correctly.
> 
> So in that sense, it's a bit sad to discuss castrating splice.

+1 IMVHO the networking bugs where people just not knowing what they
were doing. Presumably AI has scrounged all the occurrences of that
bug by now. I'd also hate to render splice optimizations moot based
on those bugs.