Re: [PATCH v3 04/26] compat_ioctl: move PPPIOCSCOMPRESS32 to ppp-generic.c

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:16 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:19:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> > +struct ppp_option_data32 {
> > +     compat_caddr_t  ptr;
>
> Huh?  compat_uptr_t, surely?  I realize that compat_ioctl.c is bogus
> that way right now, but let's not spread that crap into the places
> where it's harder to find...

Ok, done.

> >       err = -EFAULT;
> > -     if (copy_from_user(&data, (void __user *) arg, sizeof(data)))
> > -             goto out;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> > +     if (compat) {
> > +             struct ppp_option_data32 data32;
> > +
> > +             if (copy_from_user(&data32, (void __user *) arg,
> > +                                sizeof(data32)))
> > +                     goto out;
> > +
> > +             data.ptr = compat_ptr(data32.ptr);
> > +             data.length = data32.length;
> > +             data.transmit = data32.transmit;
> > +     } else
> > +#endif
> > +     {
> > +             if (copy_from_user(&data, (void __user *) arg, sizeof(data)))
> > +                     goto out;
> > +     }
>
> *UGH*
>
> Do that in caller, please.  And sod the flag argument...

Ack, changed it now.

      Arnd