Merge branch 'for-bfields' of git://linux-nfs.org/~tomtucker/xprt-switch-2.6 into for-2.6.27

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index b004dfadd891..892d41cb3382 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -528,6 +528,23 @@ ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
         return count;
 }
 
+ssize_t memory_read_from_buffer(void *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
+                                const void *from, size_t available)
+{
+        loff_t pos = *ppos;
+
+        if (pos < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (pos >= available)
+                return 0;
+        if (count > available - pos)
+                count = available - pos;
+        memcpy(to, from + pos, count);
+        *ppos = pos + count;
+
+        return count;
+}
+
 /*
  * Transaction based IO.
  * The file expects a single write which triggers the transaction, and then
@@ -800,6 +817,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_statfs);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_sync_file);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_unlink);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_read_from_buffer);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memory_read_from_buffer);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_get);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_read);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_release);