Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] kvm: Pass kvm_irqfd to functions

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:09:04 -0600
> Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Prune this down to just the struct kvm_irqfd so we can avoid
> > changing function definition for every flag or field we use.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm currently trying to find a way to make irqfd workable for s390
> which will likely include using a new field in kvm_irqfd, so I'd like
> to have this change (and I also think it makes the code nicer to read).
> So:
> 
> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>

Unfortunately it looks like we are not sanitizing kvm_irqfd
at all so we won't be able to use the padding :(
We'll need a new ioctl instead.

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