Re: [PATCH v6 11/43] compat_ioctl: move drivers to compat_ptr_ioctl

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:26:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 6:34 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:10:11PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > Each of these drivers has a copy of the same trivial helper function to
> > > convert the pointer argument and then call the native ioctl handler.
> > >
> > > We now have a generic implementation of that, so use it.
> >
> > I'd rather flipped your #7 (ceph_compat_ioctl() introduction) past
> > that one...
> 
> The idea was to be able to backport the ceph patch as a bugfix
> to stable kernels without having to change it or backport
> compat_ptr_ioctl() as well.
> 
> If you still prefer it that way, I'd move to a simpler version of this
> patch and drop the Cc:stable.

What I'm going to do is to put the introduction of compat_ptr_ioctl()
into a never-rebased branch; having e.g. ceph patch done on top of
it should suffice - it can go into -stable just fine.  Trivially
backported all the way back, has no prereqs and is guaranteed to
cause no conflicts, so if any -stable fodder ends up depending upon
it, there will be no problem whatsoever.  IMO that commit should
precede everything else in the queue...

Another thing is that I'd fold #8 into #6 - it clearly belongs
in there.