linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] pps: fix padding issue with PPS_FETCH for ioctl

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Message-ID: <2c030933-3a4a-59cc-29a0-1e46db5b5313@enneenne.com>
Date:   Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:32:55 +0100
From:   Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
To:     Matt Ranostay <matt.ranostay@...sulko.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Moritz Fischer <mdf@...nel.org>,
        George McCollister <george.mccollister@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pps: fix padding issue with PPS_FETCH for
 ioctl_compat

On 02/24/17 21:23, Matt Ranostay wrote:
> Issue is that x86 32-bit aligns to 4-bytes instead of 8-bytes
> so this patchset works around the issue and corrects the data
> returned in pps_fdata_compat.
>
> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
> Cc: Moritz Fischer <mdf@...nel.org>
> Cc: George McCollister <george.mccollister@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Ranostay <matt.ranostay@...sulko.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pps/pps.c        | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  include/uapi/linux/pps.h |  19 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>

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