linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:37:27 +0100
From:   Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:     Christian König <deathsimple@...afone.de>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl

Hi Christian,

On 2017-02-21 14:59, Christian König wrote:
> Am 21.02.2017 um 14:21 schrieb Marek Szyprowski:
>> Add compat ioctl support to dma-buf. This lets one to use 
>> DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC
>> ioctl from 32bit application on 64bit kernel. Data structures for 
>> both 32
>> and 64bit modes are same, so there is no need for additional translation
>> layer.
>
> Well I might be wrong, but IIRC compat_ioctl was just optional and if 
> not specified unlocked_ioctl was called instead.
>
> If that is true your patch wouldn't have any effect at all.

Well, then why I got -ENOTTY in the 32bit test app for this ioctl on 
64bit ARM64 kernel without this patch?

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland