On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 5:18 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 10:47:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This is one of the last remaining users of compat_alloc_user_space()
> > and copy_in_user(), which are in the process of getting removed.
> >
> > As of commit 57e6b6f2303e ("media: atomisp_fops.c: disable
> > atomisp_compat_ioctl32"), nothing in this file is actually getting used
> > as the only reference has been stubbed out.
>
> This patch was made redundant by another one that fixed the bug. But I
> guess you're right in the sense that no-one could have used this because of
> the patch that disabled it.
>
> So:
>
> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> But:
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_fops.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_fops.c
> > index f1e6b2597853..e383e17c5072 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_fops.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_fops.c
> > @@ -1283,7 +1283,8 @@ const struct v4l2_file_operations atomisp_fops = {
> > .unlocked_ioctl = video_ioctl2,
> > #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> > /*
> > - * There are problems with this code. Disable this for now.
> > + * this was removed because of bugs, the interface
> > + * needs to be made safe for compat tasks instead.
> > .compat_ioctl32 = atomisp_compat_ioctl32,
>
> I think the comment could go, too.
Should I replace it with an entry in the TODO file then?
Arnd
