From: gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/50] move compat handling of tty ioctls to tty_compat_ioctl()
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 20:51:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180915185111.GC25288@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1T6e9tQPES3f-Lh=HLpy8RXBfmwh6in20XXkgGa8612Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:38:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:17 PM gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 05:15:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:40 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > > + case TCSETX:
> > > + case TCSETXF:
> > > + case TCSETXW:
> > > + case TIOCGETC:
> > > + case TIOCGETP:
> > > + case TIOCGPTPEER:
> > > + case TIOCSERCONFIG:
> > > + case TIOCSETC:
> > > + case TIOCSETN:
> > > + case TIOCSETP:
> > > + case TIOCVHANGUP:
> > >
> > > Should these all be added in a stable backport patch?
> >
> > Why? What is being "fixed" here that anyone has noticed before that is
> > causing problems in those old kernels? If no one has complained about
> > the lack of compat fixups, well... :)
>
> Most of the individual ones don't matter:
>
> TCSETX/TCSETXF/TCSETXW/TCGETX never did anything,
> we don't care about them.
>
> TIOCSERCONFIG has always been broken in compat mode,
> not sure who calls it in practice. This is 'setserial autoconfig'.
>
> TIOCGETC/TIOCGETP/TIOCSETC/TIOCSETN/TIOCSETP
> are only defined on alpha, mips, powerpc and sparc to start
> with. They seem to only be there for compatibility with some
> Unix version for those architectures but were never part of
> the normal Linux API or the compat set, so I guess they
> also don't matter.
>
> The two that I think we may care about are:
>
> TIOCGPTPEER is a fairly recent regression from commit
> 311fc65c9fb9 ("pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER") in 4.14 after it was
> added in 4.13.
>
> TIOCVHANGUP was introduced to be used by systemd in
> commit 3c95c985fa91 ("tty: add TIOCVHANGUP to allow clean tty
> shutdown of all ttys").
> https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/54143
> has a bug report noting a problem with Raspbian systemd
> that was related to TIOCVHANGUP. I don't think it's the
> missing compat line that caused it, but the same system
> would try to run TIOCVHANGUP in compat mode on
> Raspberry Pi3 when using a 64-bit kernel with raspbian,
> so there are definitely callers.
Ah, ok, that makes sense, I forgot about the new ioctls and didn't
realize it was a regression.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-15 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-13 2:31 [PATCHES] tty ioctls cleanups, compat and not only Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 01/50] presence of RS485 ioctls has been unconditional since 2014 Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 02/50] move compat handling of tty ioctls to tty_compat_ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-14 15:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-14 18:16 ` gregkh
2018-09-14 19:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-15 18:51 ` gregkh [this message]
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 03/50] tty_ioctl(): drop FIONBIO handling Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 04/50] mos7720: bury dead TIOCM... in ->ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:31 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 05/50] tty_ioctl(): start taking TIOC[SG]SERIAL into separate methods Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:22 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-14 15:18 ` Al Viro
2018-09-14 16:23 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 06/50] simserial: switch to ->[sg]et_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 07/50] fwserial: " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 08/50] greybus/uart: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:31 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 09/50] amiserial: " Al Viro
2018-09-13 10:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-11 17:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-10-13 5:36 ` Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 10/50] cyclades: " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 11/50] ipwireless: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 12:00 ` David Sterba
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 12/50] isicom: " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 13/50] moxa: " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 14/50] mxser: " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 15/50] serial_core: " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 16/50] rfcomm: get rid of mentioning TIOC[SG]SERIAL Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 17/50] usb-serial: begin switching to ->[sg]et_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:39 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-14 15:23 ` Al Viro
2018-09-14 15:26 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 18/50] cdc-acm: switch " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 19/50] ark3116: switch to ->get_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:41 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 20/50] f81232: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:42 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 21/50] f81534: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:43 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 22/50] fdti_sio: switch to ->[sg]et_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:47 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 23/50] io_edgeport: switch to ->get_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:58 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 24/50] io_ti: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 13:59 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 25/50] mos7720: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:02 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 26/50] mos7840: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:07 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 27/50] opticon: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:08 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 28/50] pl2303: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:08 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 29/50] quatech2: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:09 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 30/50] ssu100: " Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:10 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 31/50] ti_usb_3410_5052: switch to ->[sg]et_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:12 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 32/50] whiteheat: switch to ->get_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:15 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 33/50] usb_wwan: switch to ->[sg]et_serial() Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:18 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 34/50] complete ->[sg]et_serial() switchover Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:20 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 35/50] synclink: reduce pointless checks in ->ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 36/50] take compat TIOC[SG]SERIAL treatment into tty_compat_ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 37/50] kill capinc_tty_ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 38/50] isdn_tty: TCSBRK{,P} won't reach ->ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 39/50] dgnc: TIOCM... " Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 40/50] kill the rest of tty COMPAT_IOCTL() entries Al Viro
2018-09-13 10:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 41/50] dgnc: break-related ioctls won't reach ->ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-13 11:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 42/50] remove fallback to drivers for TIOCGICOUNT Al Viro
2018-09-14 14:23 ` Johan Hovold
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 43/50] dgnc: leave TIOC[GS]SOFTCAR to ldisc Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 44/50] dgnc: don't bother with (empty) stub for TCXONC Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 45/50] gigaset: don't try to printk userland buffer contents Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 46/50] vt_compat_ioctl(): clean up, use compat_ptr() properly Al Viro
2018-09-13 10:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 47/50] gigaset: add ->compat_ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 48/50] compat_ioctl - kill keyboard ioctl handling Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 49/50] pty: fix compat ioctls Al Viro
2018-09-13 2:40 ` [PATCH 50/50] synclink_gt(): fix compat_ioctl() Al Viro
2018-09-13 11:19 ` [PATCHES] tty ioctls cleanups, compat and not only Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 20:31 ` Al Viro
2018-09-13 20:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-14 2:27 ` Al Viro
2018-09-14 8:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-14 15:10 ` Al Viro
2018-09-14 15:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 11:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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