[PATCH 19/41] KVM: Future-proof argument-less ioctls

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Apr 01 2007 - 10:46:35 EST


Some ioctls ignore their arguments. By requiring them to be zero now,
we allow a nonzero value to have some special meaning in the future.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
index cba0b87..ba7f43a 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2169,6 +2169,9 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,

switch (ioctl) {
case KVM_RUN:
+ r = -EINVAL;
+ if (arg)
+ goto out;
r = kvm_vcpu_ioctl_run(vcpu, vcpu->run);
break;
case KVM_GET_REGS: {
@@ -2440,9 +2443,15 @@ static long kvm_dev_ioctl(struct file *filp,

switch (ioctl) {
case KVM_GET_API_VERSION:
+ r = -EINVAL;
+ if (arg)
+ goto out;
r = KVM_API_VERSION;
break;
case KVM_CREATE_VM:
+ r = -EINVAL;
+ if (arg)
+ goto out;
r = kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm();
break;
case KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST: {
--
1.5.0.5

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