Re: [Qemu-discuss] Fwd: Why iocl with RNDGETENTCNT does not work?

[Marco A L Barbosa]

Thanks, I submitted a patch:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-trivial/2017-10/msg00016.html

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On 3 October 2017 at 11:50, Marco Aurélio Lopes Barbosa
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >         if (ioctl(fd, RNDGETENTCNT, &entropy) == -1)
>
> > When I run this program with qemu-x86_64-static I got the error
> >
> > Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0xffffffff80045200
> > ioctl failed
>
> > I've patched qemu to forward the iocl with RNDGETENTCNT  to the host and
> it
> > worked as expected. Can someone explain me why this does not work out of
> > the box?
>
> For the linux-user mode code in QEMU, every ioctl has to have
> code (or at least a declaration) to support it. So when new
> ioctls are added to the Linux kernel, they aren't supported
> in QEMU unless support is also added to QEMU. The error message
> is to tell the user that their program used an ioctl that
> isn't supported in QEMU.
>
> We don't have a lot of people maintaining the linux-user code,
> so generally these are only fixed as people encounter them and
> report bugs and provide us with patches.
>
> If you've written a patch which adds support for this new
> ioctl then you could send it to us via the qemu-devel mailing
> list. If you're not sure how to do that then
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
> has some information on sending us patches.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>



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