Many drivers have ioctl() handlers that are completely compatible
between 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, except for the argument
that is passed down from user space and may have to be passed
through compat_ptr() in order to become a valid 64-bit pointer.
Using ".compat_ptr=generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg" in file operations
should let us simplify a lot of those drivers to avoid #ifdef
checks, and convert additional drivers that don't have proper
compat handling yet.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/compat_ioctl.c | 10 ++++++++++
include/linux/fs.h | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/compat_ioctl.c b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
index a9b00942e87d..2d7c7e149083 100644
--- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -122,6 +122,16 @@
get_user(val, srcptr) || put_user(val, dstptr); \
})
+/* helper function to avoid trivial compat_ioctl() implementations */
+long generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+{
+ if (!file->f_op->unlocked_ioctl)
+ return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+
+ return file->f_op->unlocked_ioctl(file, cmd, (unsigned long)compat_ptr(arg));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg);
+
static int do_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
int err;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 33322702c910..18a90aa2dc93 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1643,6 +1643,13 @@ int vfs_mkobj(struct dentry *, umode_t,
extern long vfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+extern long generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
+ unsigned long arg);
+#else
+#define generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg NULL
+#endif
+
/*
* VFS file helper functions.
*/
--
2.18.0
