[PATCH v2] powerpc: Fix struct termio related ioctl macros

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.ibm.com
Sat Jun 14 02:46:16 AEST 2025



On 6/13/25 10:02 PM, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 08:36:18PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com> writes:
>>> Since termio interface is now obsolete, include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h
>>> has some constant macros referring to "struct termio", this caused
>>> build failure at userspace.
>>>
>>> In file included from /usr/include/asm/ioctl.h:12,
>>>                  from /usr/include/asm/ioctls.h:5,
>>>                  from tst-ioctls.c:3:
>>> tst-ioctls.c: In function 'get_TCGETA':
>>> tst-ioctls.c:12:10: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio'
>>>    12 |   return TCGETA;
>>>       |          ^~~~~~
>>>
>>> Even though termios.h provides "struct termio", trying to juggle definitions around to
>>> make it compile could introduce regressions. So better to open code it.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Tulio Magno <tuliom at ascii.art.br>
>>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/8734dji5wl.fsf@ascii.art.br/
>>> Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> Changelog v1:
>>> - mpe pointing out mistake in hardcoded values.
>>>   Fixed the same.
>>>
>>>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h | 8 ++++----
>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h
>>> index 2c145da3b774..b5211e413829 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h
>>> @@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
>>>  #define TCSETSW		_IOW('t', 21, struct termios)
>>>  #define TCSETSF		_IOW('t', 22, struct termios)
>>>  
>>> -#define TCGETA		_IOR('t', 23, struct termio)
>>> -#define TCSETA		_IOW('t', 24, struct termio)
>>> -#define TCSETAW		_IOW('t', 25, struct termio)
>>> -#define TCSETAF		_IOW('t', 28, struct termio)
>>> +#define TCGETA		0x40147417 /* _IOR('t', 23, struct termio) */
>>> +#define TCSETA		0x80147418 /* _IOW('t', 24, struct termio) */
>>> +#define TCSETAW		0x80147419 /* _IOW('t', 25, struct termio) */
>>> +#define TCSETAF		0x8014741c /* _IOW('t', 28, struct termio) */
>>
>> These values look right to me. And the values should never change, so
>> hard-coding them is a reasonable solution.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> 
> Has this been forgotten? We are having to carry it for userspace to
> continue, and this should really be pushed to Linus.
> 
> Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org>
> 

My bad, I will add this to my fixes-test
and sent it as part of my next fixes PR

Maddy



>>
>> cheers
>>



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