On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:52:02AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Matan Barak <matanb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The ioctl() UAPIs are meant to be used by both user-space
> and kernel ioctl() handlers.
>
> Mostly, these UAPI structs tend to consist of simple types, but
> sometimes user-space pointers may be passed between user-space and
> kernel. We would like to avoid dereferencing a user-space pointer in
> the kernel, thus - we always define RDMA_UAPI_PTR as a __aligned_u64
> type.
>
> Fixes: 1f7ff9d5d36a ('IB/uverbs: Move to new headers and make naming consistent')
> Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_verbs.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied to -next, thanks
Jason
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