Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] splice: Fix corruption in data spliced to pipe

[Matt Whitlock]

On Thursday, 29 June 2023 11:54:29 EDT, David Howells wrote:
> Matt Whitlock, Matthew Wilcox and Dave Chinner are of the opinion that data
> in the pipe must not be seen to change and that if it does, this is a bug.
> Apart from in one specific instance (vmsplice() with SPLICE_F_GIFT), the
> manual pages agree with them.  I'm more inclined to adjust the
> documentation since the behaviour we have has been that way since 2005, I
> think.

Anecdotally, my use case had been working fine for years until I upgraded 
from 5.15.x to 6.1.x in February of this year. That's when my backups 
started being corrupted. I only noticed when I was trying to restore a lost 
file from backup earlier this week.