Also I did userspace test (that shows how kernel overwrites (out of array bound) the userspace): 1. The buttons is "__u16 buttons[5]" in userspace, 2. buttons[5] = 1; 3. ioctl(fd, JSIOCGBTNMAP, buttons) 4. printf("new %i\n", buttons[5]), and the output is "new 0", so the value is being overwritten by kernel (so 1024 bytes copied to 10 bytes buffer). It looks like I don't understand what is the expected value of the _IOC_SIZE(cmd), why not 10 for this read ioctl example? Is it possible to make this ioctl safe, so it doesn't copy more data than user can handle?