Re: [PATCH v2 23/27] compat_ioctl: move HDIO ioctl handling into drivers/ide

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On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 23:17 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Most of the HDIO ioctls are only used by the obsolete drivers/ide
> subsystem, these can be handled by changing ide_cmd_ioctl() to be aware
> of compat mode and doing the correct transformations in place and using
> it as both native and compat handlers for all drivers.
> 
> The SCSI drivers implementing the same commands are already doing
> this in the drivers, so the compat_blkdev_driver_ioctl() function
> is no longer needed now.
> 
> The BLKSECTSET and HDIO_GETGEO_BIG ioctls are not implemented
> in any driver any more and no longer need any conversion.
[...]

I noticed that HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE, handled by ide_taskfile_ioctl() in
drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c, never had compat handling before.  After
this patch it does, but its argument isn't passed through compat_ptr().
Again, doesn't really matter because IDE isn't a thing on s390.

Ben.

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