Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta1 available at www.sistina.com

[Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>]

 
> The longs are the biggest problem AFAICS.
> long is 64bit on sparc64 and 32bit on sparc32...

Embedding pointers in ioctls is much worse. When this happens we basically
end up duplicating the ioctl parsing code (this code courtesy of jakub's
sharp mind, but it would be nice not to require this :)

Anton

        case VG_CREATE:
                v = kmalloc(sizeof(vg_t), GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!v) return -ENOMEM;
                if (copy_from_user(v, (void *)arg, (long)&((vg32_t *)0)->proc) ||
                    __get_user(v->proc, &((vg32_t *)arg)->proc)) {
                        kfree(v);
                        return -EFAULT;
                }
                karg = v;
                memset(v->pv, 0, sizeof(v->pv) + sizeof(v->lv));
                if (v->pv_max > ABS_MAX_PV || v->lv_max > ABS_MAX_LV)
                        return -EPERM;
                for (i = 0; i < v->pv_max; i++) {
                        err = __get_user(ptr, &((vg32_t *)arg)->pv[i]);
                        if (err) break;
                        if (ptr) {
                                v->pv[i] = kmalloc(sizeof(pv_t), GFP_KERNEL);
                                if (!v->pv[i]) {
                                        err = -ENOMEM;
                                        break;
                                }
                                err = copy_from_user(v->pv[i], (void *)A(ptr), sizeof(pv32_t) - 8);
                                if (err) {
                                        err = -EFAULT;
                                        break;
                                }
                                v->pv[i]->pe = NULL; v->pv[i]->inode = NULL;
                        }
                }
                if (!err) {
                        for (i = 0; i < v->lv_max; i++) {
                                err = __get_user(ptr, &((vg32_t *)arg)->lv[i]);
                                if (err) break;
                                if (ptr) {
                                        v->lv[i] = get_lv_t(ptr, &err);
                                        if (err) break;
                                }
                        }
                }
                break;
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