Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl

From: Kevin Winchester
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 20:31:40 EST


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> I imagined it would check for
>>
>> +struct file_operations ... = {
>> + ...
>> + .ioctl = ...
>>
>> That wouldn't catch the case of someone adding only .ioctl to an
>> already existing file_operations which is not visible in the patch context,
>> but that should be hopefully rare. The more common case is adding
>> completely new operations
>
> Right, this would work fine. We can probably even have a list of
> data structures that work like file_operations in this regard.
>

file_operations & block_device_operations are the only two that I can find.

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Kevin Winchester
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