Re: [PATCH 15/24] compat_ioctl: scsi: move ioctl handling into drivers

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Dec 11 2019 - 18:05:18 EST


On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 09:42:49PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Each driver calling scsi_ioctl() gets an equivalent compat_ioctl()
> handler that implements the same commands by calling scsi_compat_ioctl().
>
> The scsi_cmd_ioctl() and scsi_cmd_blk_ioctl() functions are compatible
> at this point, so any driver that calls those can do so for both native
> and compat mode, with the argument passed through compat_ptr().
>
> With this, we can remove the entries from fs/compat_ioctl.c. The new
> code is larger, but should be easier to maintain and keep updated with
> newly added commands.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 3 +
> drivers/scsi/ch.c | 9 ++-
> drivers/scsi/sd.c | 50 ++++++--------
> drivers/scsi/sg.c | 44 ++++++++-----
> drivers/scsi/sr.c | 57 ++++++++++++++--
> drivers/scsi/st.c | 51 ++++++++------
> fs/compat_ioctl.c | 132 +------------------------------------
> 7 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index 7ffd719d89de..fbbf18ac1d5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -405,6 +405,9 @@ static int virtblk_getgeo(struct block_device *bd, struct hd_geometry *geo)
>
> static const struct block_device_operations virtblk_fops = {
> .ioctl = virtblk_ioctl,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> + .compat_ioctl = blkdev_compat_ptr_ioctl,
> +#endif
> .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> .getgeo = virtblk_getgeo,
> };

Hmm - is virtio blk lumped in with scsi things intentionally?

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