netdev - Re: [v2] vhost: add vsock compat ioctl

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Date:   Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:50:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stefanha@...il.com
Cc:     sonnyrao@...omium.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2] vhost: add vsock compat ioctl

From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:25:35 +0000

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:30 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> Although the top level ioctls are probably size and layout compatible,
>> I do not think that the deeper ioctls can be called by compat binaries
>> without some translations in order for them to work.
> 
> I audited the vhost ioctl code when reviewing this patch and was
> unable to find anything that would break for a 32-bit userspace
> process.
> 
> drivers/vhost/net.c does the same thing already, which doesn't prove
> it's correct but makes me more confident I didn't miss something while
> auditing the vhost ioctl code.
> 
> Did you have a specific ioctl in mind?

I walked over the vhost ioctl datastructures and they all appear like
they should be compatible.

So I guess it won't be a problem after all.