From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BLKGETSIZE64 is broken (0x80041272)
Date: 27 Mar 2003 23:42:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048837368.22744.0.camel@rth.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030327214214.B19517@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 18:42, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I was adding ioctl translations and found that BLKGETSIZE64
> equals 0x80041272, with wrong size. Apparently, a whole bunch
> of ioctls takes sizeof(sizeof(foo)), which evaluates to 4
> in 32 bit userland, regardless of the size of foo.
> Are we going to do anything about it?
Anton and I noticed this a few months ago, we just handle it
the way it needs to be in the ioctl32 translation layers of
ppc64 and sparc64. I believe we even notified people such
as Andi Kleen at the time this was discovered by Anton.
--
David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-28 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-28 2:42 BLKGETSIZE64 is broken (0x80041272) Pete Zaitcev
2003-03-28 3:55 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-03-28 7:42 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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