linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 5/7] media: v4l2: introduce two IOCTLs for face detection

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Date:	Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:30:34 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <snjw23@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 5/7] media: v4l2: introduce two IOCTLs for face detection

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 04 December 2011, Ming Lei wrote:
>> >
>> > This data structure is not 32/64 bit safe: running a 64 bit kernel with 32 bit
>> > user space will see an incompatible layout.
>>
>> I agree that this is not 32/64 bit safe, but I understand lib32 can handle
>> this correctly, otherwise many 32bit applications can't run on current
>> 64bit kernel
>> since many kernel structures used by user space contained pointer,
>> such as struct v4l2_buffer, struct v4l2_ext_controls in v4l2 ABI.
>
> The other ones you mentioned are handled in the kernel in
> drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c. For new ioctl commands,
> it's better to define the data structure in a compatible way
> so you do not need a wrapper like that.

OK, I opt to use __u64 to pass the user pointer, so how about the blow
changes on this patch?

diff --git a/include/linux/videodev2.h b/include/linux/videodev2.h
index 073eb4d..8aeaa1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/videodev2.h
+++ b/include/linux/videodev2.h
@@ -2214,7 +2214,12 @@ struct v4l2_fd_result {
 	__u32	buf_index;
 	__u32	face_cnt;
 	__u32	reserved[6];
-	struct v4l2_fd_detection *fd;
+
+	/*make 64/32 compatible*/
+	union {
+		struct v4l2_fd_detection *fd;
+		__u64	dummy;
+	};
 };

 /**

thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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