Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] char: rpmb: provide a user space interface

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 09:44:03AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon 2016-07-18 23:27:49, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > The user space API is achieved via two synchronous IOCTL.
> > 
> > IOCTLs?
> 
> Will fix
>  
> > > Simplified one, RPMB_IOC_REQ_CMD, were read result cycles is
> > performed
> > > by the framework on behalf the user and second, RPMB_IOC_SEQ_CMD
> > where
> > > the whole RPMB sequence including RESULT_READ is supplied by the caller.
> > > The latter is intended for  easier adjusting  of the  applications
> > > that use MMC_IOC_MULTI_CMD ioctl.
> > 
> > Why "  "?
> Not sure I there is enough clue in your question. 
> > 
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > > +
> > > +static long rpmb_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned
> > > +long arg) {
> > > +	return __rpmb_ioctl(fp, cmd, (void __user *)arg); }
> > > +
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> > > +static long rpmb_compat_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd,
> > > +			      unsigned long arg)
> > > +{
> > > +	return	__rpmb_ioctl(fp, cmd, compat_ptr(arg));
> > > +}
> > > +#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
> > 
> > Description of the ioctl is missing, 
> Will add. 
> 
> and it should certainly be designed in a way
> > that it does not need compat support.
> 
> The compat_ioctl handler just casts the compat_ptr, I believe this
> should be done unless the ioctl is globaly registered in
> fs/compat_ioctl.c, but I might be wrong.

You shouldn't need a compat ioctl for anything new that is added, unless
your api is really messed up.  Please test to be sure, and not use a
compat ioctl at all, it isn't that hard to do.

thanks,

greg k-h