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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] nvme: Fix compat NVME_IOCTL_SUBMIT_IO numbering
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 01:26:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200328082601.GA7658@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200328050909.30639-2-nbowler@draconx.ca>

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:09:08AM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> When __u64 has 64-bit alignment, the nvme_user_io structure has trailing
> padding.  This causes problems in the compat case with 32-bit userspace
> that has less strict alignment because the size of the structure differs.
> 
> Since the NVME_IOCTL_SUBMIT_IO macro encodes the structure size itself,
> the result is that this ioctl does not work at all in such a scenario:
> 
>   # nvme read /dev/nvme0n1 -z 512
>   submit-io: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> But by the same token, this makes it easy to handle both cases and
> since the structures differ only in unused trailing padding bytes
> we can simply not read those bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>

I think we already have a similar patch titled
"nvme: Add compat_ioctl handler for NVME_IOCTL_SUBMIT_IO" in
linux-next, with the difference of actually implementing the
.compat_ioctl entry point.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-28  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-28  5:09 [PATCH v2 0/2] nvme: compat ioctl fixes Nick Bowler
2020-03-28  5:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] nvme: Fix compat NVME_IOCTL_SUBMIT_IO numbering Nick Bowler
2020-03-28  8:26   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-03-28 13:56     ` Nick Bowler
2020-03-28  5:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] nvme: Fix compat address handling in several ioctls Nick Bowler
2020-03-28  8:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-31 14:17   ` Christoph Hellwig

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