Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 06:42 +0200 schrieb Markus Rechberger:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:10 AM, hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 06:09 +0200 schrieb Markus Rechberger:
> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:46 AM, hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 05:40 +0200 schrieb Markus Rechberger:
> >> >> while porting the S2api to userspace I came accross the S2-API definition itself
> >> >>
> >> >> #define FE_SET_PROPERTY _IOW('o', 82, struct dtv_properties)
> >> >> #define FE_GET_PROPERTY _IOR('o', 83, struct dtv_properties)
> >> >>
> >> >> while looking at this, FE_GET_PROPERTY should very likely be _IOWR
> >> >>
> >> >> in dvb-frontend.c:
> >> >> ----
> >> >> if(cmd == FE_GET_PROPERTY) {
> >> >>
> >> >> tvps = (struct dtv_properties __user *)parg;
> >> >>
> >> >> dprintk("%s() properties.num = %d\n", __func__, tvps->num);
> >> >> dprintk("%s() properties.props = %p\n", __func__, tvps->props);
> >> >> ...
> >> >> if (copy_from_user(tvp, tvps->props, tvps->num *
> >> >> sizeof(struct dtv_property)))
> >> >> ----
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards,
> >> >> Markus
> >> >
> >> > Seems to be a big issue.
> >> >
> >> > Why you ever want to write to a get property?
> >> >
> >>
> >> to read out the API version for example.
> >> tvps->num is also used in order to check the boundaries of the property array.
> >>
> >> Markus
> >
> > Their are no writes allowed to manipulate get properties.
> >
>
> the writes are needed in order to submit tvps->num, although _IOR will
> work _IOWR is the correct one in that case, aside of that you can just
> compare it with other calls (eg. v4l2), the ENUM calls are all _IOWR.
> They submit the index and retrieve the rest.
>
> Markus
OK,
thought I'll have never to care for it again.
ENUM calls should never be W.
Hit me for all I missed.
Cheers,
Hermann
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