Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 29 October 2009, David Miller wrote:
> Arnd, even compat_sys_ioctl() itself has constructs like:
> 
>         case FS_IOC_RESVSP:
>         case FS_IOC_RESVSP64:
>                 error = ioctl_preallocate(filp, (void __user *)arg);
>                 goto out_fput;

Right. This one is pretty recent and I did not notice it doing this
unfortunately. There are a few others added to fs/compat_ioctl.c
over the years also doing it.

	Arnd <><
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