Re: compat ioctl32 for /dev/snapshot?

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-05T23:13:47Z

On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 04 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> In fact I don't think the 32-bit user space will work with 64-bit kernels as is
> >> in this particular case, because of the different pointer size.
> >>
> >> Having a quick look at the code (I don't remember the details right now)
> >> I think most probably it could be modified to handle this case too, but I'm not
> >> really sure.
> >
> > I don't see anything in the snapshot code that passes pointers to the
> > kernel, so why should the pointer size matter?
>
> It's the userspace part (uswsusp). In particular it parses swap
> on-disk data structures.
>
> But in any case, without compat_ioctl32 in kernel userspace part
> can not be fixed.

Well, agreed. :-)

Rafael