Re: [PATCH RESEND] compat-ioctl/Xen: support at least some IOCTLs of evtchn and privcmd

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:19:00AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While this is only a start (IOCTL_PRIVCMD_MMAP* and IOCTL_PRIVCMD_DM_OP
> require more work), it at least allows some simple operations (like
> "xl dmesg") which have always been available on XenoLinux to work again
> with a 64-bit kernel underneath a 32-bit distro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Nacked-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

	This belongs in drivers/xen/privcmd.c, not in fs/compat_ioctl.c
*ANY* single-driver ioctl definitely should be handled by ->compat_ioctl()
method and any patches dumping such stuff into fs/compat_ioctl.c will be
rejected.



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