Re: [PATCH v2 05/17] compat_ioctl: move more drivers to generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg

Jason Gunthorpe
2018-09-12T15:56:39Z

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 05:08:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The .ioctl and .compat_ioctl file operations have the same prototype so
> they can both point to the same function, which works great almost all
> the time when all the commands are compatible.
>
> One exception is the s390 architecture, where a compat pointer is only
> 31 bit wide, and converting it into a 64-bit pointer requires calling
> compat_ptr(). Most drivers here will ever run in s390, but since we now
> have a generic helper for it, it's easy enough to use it consistently.
>
> I double-checked all these drivers to ensure that all ioctl arguments
> are used as pointers or are ignored, but are not interpreted as integer
> values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> drivers/android/binder.c | 2 +-
> drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c | 2 +-
> drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 4 +---
> drivers/dma-buf/sw_sync.c | 2 +-
> drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c | 2 +-
> drivers/hid/hidraw.c | 4 +---
> drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 2 +-
> drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c | 4 +---
> drivers/mfd/cros_ec_dev.c | 4 +---
> drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c | 2 +-
> drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 2 +-
> drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c | 2 +-
> drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 2 +-
> drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/sbus/char/display7seg.c | 2 +-
> drivers/sbus/char/envctrl.c | 4 +---
> drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c | 4 +---
> drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c | 2 +-
> drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c | 2 +-
> drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c | 4 +---
> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 4 +---
> drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 2 +-
> drivers/tee/tee_core.c | 2 +-
> drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c | 2 +-
> drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c | 4 +---
> drivers/video/fbdev/ps3fb.c | 2 +-
> drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c | 2 +-
> fs/btrfs/super.c | 2 +-
> fs/ceph/dir.c | 2 +-
> fs/ceph/file.c | 2 +-
> fs/fuse/dev.c | 2 +-
> fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 2 +-
> fs/userfaultfd.c | 2 +-
> net/rfkill/core.c | 2 +-
> 37 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> index 823beca448e1..f4755c1c9cfa 100644
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ static const struct file_operations uverbs_fops = {
> .release = ib_uverbs_close,
> .llseek = no_llseek,
> .unlocked_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
> - .compat_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
> + .compat_ioctl = generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg,
> };
>
> static const struct file_operations uverbs_mmap_fops = {
> @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ static const struct file_operations uverbs_mmap_fops = {
> .release = ib_uverbs_close,
> .llseek = no_llseek,
> .unlocked_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
> - .compat_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
> + .compat_ioctl = generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg,
> };
>
> static struct ib_client uverbs_client = {

For uverbs:

Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>

It is very strange, this patch did not appear in the RDMA patchworks,
I almost missed it :|

Jason