[PATCH v2 03/17] compat_ioctl: use correct compat_ptr() translation in drivers
Andrew Donnellan
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Thu Sep 13 10:48:15 AEST 2018
On 13/09/18 01:01, 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>
For cxl:
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>
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Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited
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