Re: [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and syscalls

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Nov 23 2016 - 10:34:00 EST


On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:03:23 +0000
alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


> - This should also work for ioctls in the future.

Any ioctl that requires more than 6 arguments should also be NACKed in
the future. If you need that many arguments, its best to simply create
a structure and pass that it.

Again, the function syscalls_get_arguments() will BUG() on most archs
if it expects more than 6 arguments.

-- Steve