Re: [PATCH 2/2] scsi:target:tcmu: reduce once copy by using uio ioctl

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 07:13:07PM +0800, Xiaoguang Wang wrote:
> hi,
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:29:22AM +0800, Guixin Liu wrote:
> > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/target_core_user.h
> > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/target_core_user.h
> > > @@ -185,4 +185,13 @@ enum tcmu_genl_attr {
> > >   };
> > >   #define TCMU_ATTR_MAX (__TCMU_ATTR_MAX - 1)
> > > +struct tcmu_data_xfer {
> > > +	unsigned short cmd_id;
> > > +	unsigned long iov_cnt;
> > > +	struct iovec __user *iovec;
> > > +};
> > That is no way to define a structure that crosses the user/kernel
> > boundry, it just will not work at all, even if we wanted it to :(
> Sorry, I don't quite understand your comments well, can you explain more why
> this structure
> does not work, except that "unsigned short" or "unsigned long" here isn't
> correct, should use
> u16 or u32.

__u32 and __u16 must be used for structures like this.  Also it's
unaligned and has a hole in it, and will cause problems with compilers.
You didn't try this on a 32/64bit system either :(

thanks,

greg k-h