Re: [PATCH][STABLE] autofs: unbreak automounter support on 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace (v2)

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:56:26PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> Please apply to all stable releases.
> It fixes automounter support on parisc (for 32bit userspace with 64bit
> kernel) and makes this header file more robust in such a way that new
> architectures will not run into similiar issues again.

Added to 3.5 tree queue.  Thanks.

Cheers,
--
Luis

>
> 
> commit 4f4ffc3a5398ef9bdbb32db04756d7d34e356fcf
> Author: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Feb 4 19:39:52 2013 +0000
> 
> unbreak automounter support on 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace (v2)
> 
> automount-support is broken on the parisc architecture, because the existing
> #if list does not include a check for defined(__hppa__). The HPPA (parisc)
> architecture is similiar to other 64bit Linux targets where we have to define
> autofs_wqt_t (which is passed back and forth to user space) as int type which
> has a size of 32bit across 32 and 64bit kernels.
> 
> During the discussion on the mailing list, H. Peter Anvin suggested to invert
> the #if list since only specific platforms (specifically those who do not have
> a 32bit userspace, like IA64 and Alpha) should have autofs_wqt_t as unsigned
> long type.
> 
> This suggestion is probably the best way to go, since Arm64 (and maybe others?)
> seems to have a non-working automounter. So in the long run even for other new
> upcoming architectures this inverted check seem to be the best solution, since
> it will not require them to change this #if again (unless they are 64bit only).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h
> index 77cdba9..bb991df 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h
> @@ -28,25 +28,16 @@
>  #define AUTOFS_MIN_PROTO_VERSION	AUTOFS_PROTO_VERSION
>  
>  /*
> - * Architectures where both 32- and 64-bit binaries can be executed
> - * on 64-bit kernels need this.  This keeps the structure format
> - * uniform, and makes sure the wait_queue_token isn't too big to be
> - * passed back down to the kernel.
> - *
> - * This assumes that on these architectures:
> - * mode     32 bit    64 bit
> - * -------------------------
> - * int      32 bit    32 bit
> - * long     32 bit    64 bit
> - *
> - * If so, 32-bit user-space code should be backwards compatible.
> + * The wait_queue_token (autofs_wqt_t) is part of a structure which is passed
> + * back to the kernel via ioctl from userspace. On architectures where 32- and
> + * 64-bit userspace binaries can be executed it's important that the size of
> + * autofs_wqt_t stays constant between 32- and 64-bit Linux kernels so that we
> + * do not break the binary ABI interface by changing the structure size.
>   */
> -
> -#if defined(__sparc__) || defined(__mips__) || defined(__x86_64__) \
> - || defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__s390__)
> -typedef unsigned int autofs_wqt_t;
> -#else
> +#if defined(__ia64__) || defined(__alpha__) /* pure 64bit architectures */
>  typedef unsigned long autofs_wqt_t;
> +#else
> +typedef unsigned int autofs_wqt_t;
>  #endif
>  
>  /* Packet types */
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