Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] block: add ioctl to read the disk sequence number

From: Matteo Croce
Date: Mon Jul 12 2021 - 19:25:31 EST


On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:22:43 +0000
"Elliott, Robert (Servers)" <elliott@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2021 12:54 PM
> ...
> > Subject: [PATCH v4 3/5] block: add ioctl to read the disk sequence
> > number
> >
> > From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add a new BLKGETDISKSEQ ioctl which retrieves the disk sequence
> > number from the genhd structure.
> ...
>
>
> Given:
> static int put_u64(u64 __user *argp, u64 val)
> {
> return put_user(val, argp);
> }
>
> > diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
> > index 24beec9ca9c9..0c3a4a53fa11 100644
> > --- a/block/ioctl.c
> > +++ b/block/ioctl.c
> > @@ -469,6 +469,8 @@ static int blkdev_common_ioctl(struct
> > block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
> > BLKDEV_DISCARD_SECURE);
> ...
>
> > + case BLKGETDISKSEQ:
> > + return put_u64(argp, bdev->bd_disk->diskseq);
>
> How does that work on a system in which int is 32 bits?
>
>

Hi,

what's the difference with this?

case BLKGETSIZE64:
return put_u64(argp, i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode));

The returned int is an error code, not the diskseq value itself, e.g.

case BLKFRAGET:
if (!argp)
return -EINVAL;

Regards,
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