Re: [PATCH 2/5] socket ioctl fix (from Andi)

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 05:57:16 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:48:16PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Attached patch is against 2.6.11-rc1-bk5.
> It is split out from Andi's big patch.
> It is really unchanged so I dont put a signed-off-by here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
>
> SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl command only applies to socket descriptors.
>
> diff -rup linux-2.6.10-orig/fs/compat.c linux-2.6.10-ioctl-sym/fs/compat.c
> --- linux-2.6.10-orig/fs/compat.c 2005-01-18 10:58:33.609880024 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.10-ioctl-sym/fs/compat.c 2005-01-18 10:54:26.289478440 +0200
> @@ -454,7 +460,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ioctl(unsigne
> }
> up_read(&ioctl32_sem);
>
> - if (cmd >= SIOCDEVPRIVATE && cmd <= (SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 15)) {
> + if (S_ISSOCK(filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode) &&
> + cmd >= SIOCDEVPRIVATE && cmd <= (SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 15)) {
> error = siocdevprivate_ioctl(fd, cmd, arg);

Maybe this should move into a new sock_compat_ioctl() instead?

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