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Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl

From Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl
Date 2017-02-21 16:00 +0100
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Dear All,

On 2017-02-21 15:37, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On 2017-02-21 14:59, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 21.02.2017 um 14:21 schrieb Marek Szyprowski:
>>> Add compat ioctl support to dma-buf. This lets one to use 
>>> DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC
>>> ioctl from 32bit application on 64bit kernel. Data structures for 
>>> both 32
>>> and 64bit modes are same, so there is no need for additional 
>>> translation
>>> layer.
>>
>> Well I might be wrong, but IIRC compat_ioctl was just optional and if 
>> not specified unlocked_ioctl was called instead.
>>
>> If that is true your patch wouldn't have any effect at all.
>
> Well, then why I got -ENOTTY in the 32bit test app for this ioctl on 
> 64bit ARM64 kernel without this patch?
>

I've checked in fs/compat_ioctl.c, I see no fallback in 
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3,
so one has to provide compat_ioctl callback to have ioctl working with 32bit
apps.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

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[PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> - 2017-02-21 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2017-02-21 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> - 2017-02-21 15:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> - 2017-02-21 16:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2017-02-21 16:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2017-02-22 20:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> - 2017-02-23 07:50 +0100

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