linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix wrong struct type in ioctl definition whih cmd XFS_IOC

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Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 06:06:15 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     yu kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Cc:     darrick.wong@...cle.com, bfoster@...hat.com, dchinner@...hat.com,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        zhengbin13@...wei.com, yi.zhang@...wei.com, zhangxiaoxu5@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix wrong struct type in ioctl definition whih cmd
 XFS_IOC_GETBMAPAX

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 07:14:46PM +0800, yu kuai wrote:
> ioctl expect 'getbmapx' as the 'arg' when the cmd is XFS_IOC_GETBMAPX.
> But the definition in 'xfs_fs.h' is 'getbmap'

Strictly speaking that is true.  But changing this defintion will break
existing userspace given that _IOWR encodes the structure size.  If you
had reported this 16 years earlier we could have fixed it.