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-rw-r--r--drivers/block/loop.c11
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 9ca4bb01465..801f4ab8330 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -709,10 +709,6 @@ static int loop_change_fd(struct loop_device *lo, struct block_device *bdev,
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
goto out_putf;
- /* new backing store needs to support loop (eg splice_read) */
- if (!inode->i_fop->splice_read)
- goto out_putf;
-
/* size of the new backing store needs to be the same */
if (get_loop_size(lo, file) != get_loop_size(lo, old_file))
goto out_putf;
@@ -788,12 +784,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
error = -EINVAL;
if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) {
const struct address_space_operations *aops = mapping->a_ops;
- /*
- * If we can't read - sorry. If we only can't write - well,
- * it's going to be read-only.
- */
- if (!file->f_op->splice_read)
- goto out_putf;
+
if (aops->write_begin)
lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_USE_AOPS;
if (!(lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_USE_AOPS) && !file->f_op->write)