Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: Get SIOCGIFBR/SIOCSIFBR ioctl working in compat mode

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
Date: Mon Dec 27 2021 - 06:56:04 EST


On 24/12/2021 13:46, Remi Pommarel wrote:
> In compat mode SIOC{G,S}IFBR ioctls were only supporting
> BRCTL_GET_VERSION returning an artificially version to spur userland
> tool to use SIOCDEVPRIVATE instead. But some userland tools ignore that
> and use SIOC{G,S}IFBR unconditionally as seen with busybox's brctl.
>
> Example of non working 32-bit brctl with CONFIG_COMPAT=y:
> $ brctl show
> brctl: SIOCGIFBR: Invalid argument
>
> Example of fixed 32-bit brctl with CONFIG_COMPAT=y:
> $ brctl show
> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
> br0
>
> Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/bridge/br_ioctl.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> net/socket.c | 20 ++----------
> 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>

Looks good to me, thanks.
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx>