linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/17] compat_ioctl: use correct compat

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Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:48:15 +1000
From:   Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Frank Haverkamp <haver@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@...adcom.com>,
        Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@...adcom.com>,
        Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@...adcom.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/17] compat_ioctl: use correct compat_ptr()
 translation in drivers

On 13/09/18 01:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A handful of drivers all have a trivial wrapper around their ioctl
> handler, but don't call the compat_ptr() conversion function at the
> moment. In practice this does not matter, since none of them are used
> on the s390 architecture and for all other architectures, compat_ptr()
> does not do anything, but using the new generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg
> helper makes it more correct in theory, and simplifies the code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

For cxl:

Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited