Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?

[David Miller]

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:34:16 +0100

> Subject: [PATCH] fs: add missing compat_ptr handling for FS_IOC_RESVSP ioctl
> 
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> For FS_IOC_RESVSP and FS_IOC_RESVSP64 compat_sys_ioctl() uses its
> arg argument as a pointer to userspace. However it is missing a
> a call to compat_ptr() which will do a proper pointer conversion.
> 
> This was introduced with 3e63cbb1 "fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls
> to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls".
> 
> Cc: Ankit Jain <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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