Re: uhid: broken interface: 32/64-bit compatibility

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi David,

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:46:55PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi Kirill
> 
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi David and all,
> >
> > There's claim in uhid.h that the interface is "compatible even between
> > architectures". But it obviously is not true: struct uhid_create_req
> > contains pointer which breaks everything.
> >
> > The easy way to demonstrate the issue is compile uhid-example.c with -m32
> > and try to run it on 64 bit kernel. Creating of the device will fail.
> 
> Indeed, we missed that. We should probably also notify the HIDP
> developers as "struct hidp_connadd_req" suffers from the same
> problems. (CC'ed)

I believe this issue has already been taken care of (see
compat_hidp_connadd_req and hidp_sock_compat_ioctl).

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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