Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] linux-user: ioctl() command type is int

[Eric Blake]

On 06/15/2015 04:35 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> When executing a 64bit target chroot on 64bit host,
> the ioctl() command can mismatch.
> 

> 
> The origin of the problem is in syscall.c:do_ioctl().
> 
>       static abi_long do_ioctl(int fd, abi_long cmd, abi_long arg)

It's annoying that Linux picked ioctl(int, unsigned long request, ...),
particularly since POSIX picked ioctl(int, int request, ...) [1] and
therefore Linux is constrained to never accept a 'request' that doesn't
fit in 32 bits.  Especially so since the POSIX definition of ioctl()
applies only to the obsolete STREAMS interface that Linux never really
picked up on. (The gnulib project has determined ways to write an
ioctl() wrapper that always takes an int request, then widens to long as
necessary before calling the real syscall, with no ill effects [2])

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ioctl.html
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/ioctl.c

However, I don't feel comfortable enough with this code to give a
competent review, only to offer up that bit of trivia and the vague
impression that it looks like you are safe in this patch.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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