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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt index cc30b14791cb..36138c632f7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt @@ -34,15 +34,18 @@ will need to add a a 32-bit compat layer: 64-bit platforms do. So we always need padding to the natural size to get this right. - * Pad the entire struct to a multiple of 64-bits - the structure size will - otherwise differ on 32-bit versus 64-bit. Having a different structure size - hurts when passing arrays of structures to the kernel, or if the kernel - checks the structure size, which e.g. the drm core does. + * Pad the entire struct to a multiple of 64-bits if the structure contains + 64-bit types - the structure size will otherwise differ on 32-bit versus + 64-bit. Having a different structure size hurts when passing arrays of + structures to the kernel, or if the kernel checks the structure size, which + e.g. the drm core does. * Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintprt_t on the userspace side and from/to a void __user * in the kernel. Try really hard not to delay this conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that - diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide. + diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide. The macro + u64_to_user_ptr can be used in the kernel to avoid warnings about integers + and pointres of different sizes. Basics |