drivers/char/mem: implement splice() for /dev/zero, /dev/full
This allows splicing zeroed pages into a pipe, and allows discarding pages from a pipe by splicing them to /dev/zero. Writing to /dev/zero should have the same effect as writing to /dev/null, and a "splice_write" implementation exists only for /dev/null. (The /dev/zero splice_read implementation could be optimized by pushing references to the global zero page to the pipe, but that's an optimization for another day.) Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230919073743.1066313-1-max.kellermann@ionos.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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