Re: [PATCH] generic compat_sys_ustat

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:41:05AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Due to a different size of ino_t ustat needs a compat handler, but
> currently only x86 and mips provide one.  Add a generic compat_sys_ustat
> and switch all architectures over to it.
> 
> Found by Eric Sandeen when running xfstests/017 on ppc64, which causes
> stack smashing warnings on RHEL/Fedora due to the too large amount of
> data writen by the syscall.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

For the MIPS bits:

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

  Ralf
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