Re: [PATCH] fs/compat_ioctl.c: Add KD[GS]KBDIACRUC to the compatible list

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jan 01 2010 - 12:21:22 EST


On Friday 01 January 2010, Michael Schutte wrote:
> Allow handling of Unicode compose sequences by 32-bit apps on a 64-bit
> system. The issue has been reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/540534>
> and <http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/kbd/2009-December/000235.html>.
>
> A formal check of the two affected ioctls in drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
> (introduced in 04c71976) and a test using x86 kbd 1.15.1 on a so patched
> x86_64 kernel both confirm that KD[GS]KBDIACRUC are ioctl32()
> compatible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Schutte <michi@xxxxxxx>

Since 2.6.32, we handle all VT specific ioctls in the vt_compat_ioctl()
function, which should fix this one implicitly. Please try to reproduce
with a recent kernel.

Arnd
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