From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>,
Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>,
Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>,
Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
megaraidlinux.pdl@broadcom.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [v2,03/17] compat_ioctl: use correct compat_ptr() translation in drivers
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:13:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180912181309.GA15031@kroah.com> (raw)
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 05:01:04PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A handful of drivers all have a trivial wrapper around their ioctl
> handler, but don't call the compat_ptr() conversion function at the
> moment. In practice this does not matter, since none of them are used
> on the s390 architecture and for all other architectures, compat_ptr()
> does not do anything, but using the new generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg
> helper makes it more correct in theory, and simplifies the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> drivers/misc/cxl/flash.c | 8 +-------
> drivers/misc/genwqe/card_dev.c | 23 +----------------------
> drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c | 28 +---------------------------
> drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 12 +-----------
> 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
Nice cleanup on this series!
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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2018-09-12 18:13 Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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2018-09-13 11:03 [v2,03/17] compat_ioctl: use correct compat_ptr() translation in drivers Felipe Balbi
2018-09-13 0:48 Andrew Donnellan
2018-09-12 15:01 Arnd Bergmann
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