Re: [PATCH v3 20/26] compat_ioctl: remove translation for sound ioctls

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Wed Apr 17 2019 - 04:05:38 EST


On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:28:05 +0200,
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> The SNDCTL_* and SOUND_* commands are the old OSS user interface.
>
> I checked all the sound ioctl commands listed in fs/compat_ioctl.c
> to see if we still need the translation handlers. Here is what I
> found:
>
> - sound/oss/ is (almost) gone from the kernel, this is what actually
> needed all the translations
> - The ALSA emulation for OSS correctly handles all compat_ioctl
> commands already.
> - sound/oss/dmasound/ is the last holdout of the original OSS code,
> this is only used on arch/m68k, which has no 64-bit mode and
> hence needs no compat handlers
> - arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c may run in 64-bit mode with
> 32-bit x86 user space underneath it. This rare corner case is
> the only one that still needs the compat handlers.
>
> By adding a simple redirect of .compat_ioctl to .unlocked_ioctl in the
> UML driver, we can remove all the COMPATIBLE_IOCTL() annotations without
> a change in functionality. For completeness, I'm adding the same thing
> to the dmasound file, knowing that it makes no difference.
>
> The compat_ioctl list contains one comment about SNDCTL_DSP_MAPINBUF and
> SNDCTL_DSP_MAPOUTBUF, which actually would need a translation handler
> if implemented. However, the native implementation just returns -EINVAL,
> so we don't care.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

This looks like a really nice cleanup. Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>


Takashi