Re: [PATCH v3 12/26] compat_ioctl: move more drivers to compat_ptr_ioctl

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 5:22 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Em Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:33 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
> If I understand your patch description well, using compat_ptr_ioctl
> only works if the driver is not for s390, right?

No, the purpose of compat_ptr_ioctl() is to make sure it works
everywhere including s390.

Even on s390 it tends to work most of the time, but for correctness
the upper bit of a 32-bit pointer needs to be cleared, as
compat_ptr_ioctl does, in case some application passes a pointer
with that bit set. [IIRC, in the instruction pointer, the high bit is set, in
data references it is ignored but usually cleared, but it may be left
on for IP-relative address generation]

       Arnd