"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> > -
> > + case TIOCGDEV:
> > + return put_user (kdev_t_to_nr (real_tty->device), (unsigned int*) arg);
>
> This is broken -- you're returning a dev_t as an unsigned int. On
> i386 that means overwriting two bytes of userspace you shouldn't be,
The interface is defined as int, not as dev_t (see the ioctl defines)
I'm not aware of anybody proposing 64bit dev_t for the kernel,
only 32bit dev_t, and the interface provides for that.
-Andi
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