What appears to be a copy and paste error from the line above gets the ioctl a ssize_t return value instead of the traditional "int". The associated sample code used "long" which meant it would compile for x86-64 but not i386, with the latter failing as follows: CC [M] samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.o samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c:1418:20: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] .ioctl = mtty_ioctl, ^ samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c:1418:20: note: (near initialization for ‘mdev_fops.ioctl’) cc1: some warnings being treated as errors Since in this case, vfio is working with struct file_operations; as such: long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); ...and so here we just standardize on long vs. the normal int that user space typically sees and documents as per "man ioctl" and similar. Fixes: 9d1a546c53b4 ("docs: Sample driver to demonstrate how to use Mediated device framework.") Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neo Jia <cjia@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- [v1 --> v2: promote ioctl return from int to long to align with the struct file_operations as per requests in review comments. ] include/linux/mdev.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mdev.h b/include/linux/mdev.h index 3ee44b8d2bb3..b6e048e1045f 100644 --- a/include/linux/mdev.h +++ b/include/linux/mdev.h @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct mdev_parent_ops { size_t count, loff_t *ppos); ssize_t (*write)(struct mdev_device *mdev, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos); - ssize_t (*ioctl)(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd, + long (*ioctl)(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg); int (*mmap)(struct mdev_device *mdev, struct vm_area_struct *vma); }; -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html