Re: [PATCH v5 01/18] xfs: compat_ioctl: use compat_ptr()

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Aug 15 2019 - 15:46:39 EST


On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:28 PM Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:20:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 4:04 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:15:12PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/xfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xfs-ioctl-table
> > > >
> > > > Lots to like in that handful of patches. :)
> > > >
> > > > It can easily go before or after Arnd's patch, and the merge
> > > > conflict either way would be minor, so I'm not really fussed either
> > > > way this gets sorted out...
> > >
> > > The other thing we could do is to just pick the two important ones:
> > >
> > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/xfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xfs-ioctl-table-5.3
> > >
> > > and throw that into Arnds series, or even 5.3, and then defer the
> > > table thing until later.
> >
> > If we can have your "xfs: fall back to native ioctls for unhandled compat
> > ones" in 5.3, that would be ideal from my side, then I can just drop the
> > corresponding patch from my series and have the rest merged for 5.4.
> >
> > The compat_ptr addition is independent of my series, I just added it
> > because I noticed it was missing, so we can merged that through
> > the xfs tree along with your other changes, either for 5.3 or 5.4.
>
> Er... do the two patches in the -5.3 branch actually fix something
> that's broken? I sense s390 is missing a pointer sanitization check or
> something...?

s390 is indeed missing the pointer conversion, the other patch
adds compat ioctl support for FS_IOC_GETFSLABEL and
FS_IOC_SETFSLABEL, which were missing, and it ensures that
FITRIM keeps working after I remove it from the list in
fs/compat_ioctl.c

Arnd