[PATCH v2 03/17] compat_ioctl: use correct compat_ptr() translation in drivers
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Sep 13 04:13:09 AEST 2018
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 05:01:04PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A handful of drivers all have a trivial wrapper around their ioctl
> handler, but don't call the compat_ptr() conversion function at the
> moment. In practice this does not matter, since none of them are used
> on the s390 architecture and for all other architectures, compat_ptr()
> does not do anything, but using the new generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg
> helper makes it more correct in theory, and simplifies the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
> drivers/misc/cxl/flash.c | 8 +-------
> drivers/misc/genwqe/card_dev.c | 23 +----------------------
> drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c | 28 +---------------------------
> drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 12 +-----------
> 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
Nice cleanup on this series!
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
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