Re: [PATCH v5 15/29] compat_ioctl: move tape handling into drivers

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:51 PM Heiko Carstens
<heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 09:55:31PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > MTIOCPOS and MTIOCGET are incompatible between 32-bit and 64-bit user
> > space, and traditionally have been translated in fs/compat_ioctl.c.
> >
> > To get rid of that translation handler, move a corresponding
> > implementation into each of the four drivers implementing those commands.
> >
> > The interesting part of that is now in a new linux/mtio.h header that
> > wraps the existing uapi/linux/mtio.h header and provides an abstraction
> > to let drivers handle both cases easily. Using an in_compat_syscall()
> > check, the caller does not have to keep track of whether this was
> > called through .unlocked_ioctl() or .compat_ioctl().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Besides the two minor things below
>
> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot for the reviewed. Both issues are fixed now, and
I'm pushing out new git branches after adding the other Acks
I got so far.

      Arnd



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