linux-kernel - UML/man: BLKGETSIZE takes a long, not an int

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:42:47 +0200
From:	Nicolas George <nicolas.george@...malesup.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, uml-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: UML/man: BLKGETSIZE takes a long, not an int

Hi.

I found a type mismatch in UML that makes host block devices unusable as ubd
devices on x86_64 and other 64 bits systems (segfault of the mm subsystem):

In block/ioctl.c, the following lines show that the BLKGETSIZE ioctl expects
a pointer to a long:

	case BLKGETSIZE:
		if ((bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9) > ~0UL)
			return -EFBIG;
		return put_ulong(arg, bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9);

In arch/um/os-Linux/file.c, os_file_size calls it with an int.

The ioctl_list man page should be fixed as well.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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