From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] compat_ioctl: remove translation for sound ioctls
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 05:16:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180909041632.GE19965@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180908142837.2819693-3-arnd@arndb.de>
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 04:28:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The SNDCTL_* and SOUND_* commands are the old OSS user interface.
>
> I checked all the sound ioctl commands listed in fs/compat_ioctl.c
> to see if we still need the translation handlers. Here is what I
> found:
>
> - sound/oss/ is (almost) gone from the kernel, this is what actually
> needed all the translations
> - The ALSA emulation for OSS correctly handles all compat_ioctl
> commands already.
> - sound/oss/dmasound/ is the last holdout of the original OSS code,
> this is only used on arch/m68k, which has no 64-bit mode and
> hence needs no compat handlers
> - arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c may run in 64-bit mode with
> 32-bit x86 user space underneath it. This rare corner case is
> the only one that still needs the compat handlers.
>
> By adding a simple redirect of .compat_ioctl to .unlocked_ioctl in the
> UML driver, we can remove all the COMPATIBLE_IOCTL() annotations without
> a change in functionality. For completeness, I'm adding the same thing
> to the dmasound file, knowing that it makes no difference.
> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c
> index 7f9dbdbc4eb7..0278a642a622 100644
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c
> @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static const struct file_operations hostaudio_fops = {
> .write = hostaudio_write,
> .poll = hostaudio_poll,
> .unlocked_ioctl = hostaudio_ioctl,
> + .compat_ioctl = hostaudio_ioctl,
Umm... OK, seeing that it's not going to be used on s390... It's still
not quite right, though, and I'm afraid that places where we have the
same ->unlocked_ioctl and ->compat_ioctl need an audit - there probably
had been other folks who'd stepped into the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-09 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-08 14:28 [PATCH 01/11] compat_ioctl: remove keyboard ioctl translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 02/11] compat_ioctl: remove HIDIO translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 03/11] compat_ioctl: remove translation for sound ioctls Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-09 4:16 ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-09-11 19:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 04/11] compat_ioctl: remove isdn ioctl translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 05/11] compat_ioctl: remove IGNORE_IOCTL() Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 06/11] compat_ioctl: remove /dev/random commands Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-09 4:11 ` Al Viro
2018-09-11 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12 5:28 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-12 14:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 6:42 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-13 8:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 07/11] compat_ioctl: remove joystick ioctl translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 08/11] compat_ioctl: remove PCI " Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 09/11] compat_ioctl: remove /dev/raw " Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 10/11] compat_ioctl: remove last RAID handling code Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 11/11] compat_ioctl: move tape handling into drivers Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-09 4:37 ` Al Viro
2018-09-11 15:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-11 20:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
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