From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ->compat_ioctl for 390 tape_char
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:01:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051107040118.GA16331@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511050217.02547.arnd@arndb.de>
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:16:56AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On S?nnavend 05 November 2005 00:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > we return -ENOIOCTLCMD if we didn't have a valid compat ioctl, and in
> > that case the vfs code will try to find it in the core translation
> > table.
>
> No, the function you wrote returns -ENOIOCTLCMD only if
> device->discipline->ioctl_fn is NULL, otherwise it returns the
> code it gets from that function, which is -EINVAL.
indeed. updated patch below that handles that case. I couldn't find
a problem like that in the other patches.
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/s390/char/tape_char.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/char/tape_char.c 2005-11-06 20:06:55.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/s390/char/tape_char.c 2005-11-06 20:19:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
static int tapechar_release(struct inode *,struct file *);
static int tapechar_ioctl(struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int,
unsigned long);
+static long tapechar_compat_ioctl(struct file *, unsigned int,
+ unsigned long);
static struct file_operations tape_fops =
{
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@
.read = tapechar_read,
.write = tapechar_write,
.ioctl = tapechar_ioctl,
+ .compat_ioctl = tapechar_compat_ioctl,
.open = tapechar_open,
.release = tapechar_release,
};
@@ -463,6 +466,23 @@
return device->discipline->ioctl_fn(device, no, data);
}
+static long
+tapechar_compat_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int no, unsigned long data)
+{
+ struct tape_device *device = filp->private_data;
+ int rval = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+
+ if (device->discipline->ioctl_fn) {
+ lock_kernel();
+ rval = device->discipline->ioctl_fn(device, no, data);
+ unlock_kernel();
+ if (rval == -EINVAL)
+ rval = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+ }
+
+ return rval;
+}
+
/*
* Initialize character device frontend.
*/
Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/compat_ioctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/kernel/compat_ioctl.c 2005-11-06 20:17:52.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/compat_ioctl.c 2005-11-06 20:17:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@
#include <linux/compat_ioctl.h>
#define DECLARES
#include "../../../fs/compat_ioctl.c"
-
-/* s390 only ioctls */
-COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(TAPE390_DISPLAY)
};
int ioctl_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(ioctl_start);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-07 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-04 22:18 [PATCH 4/4] ->compat_ioctl for 390 tape_char Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-04 23:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-04 23:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-05 1:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-07 4:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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