doc: ioctl: Add some clarifications to botching-up-ioctls
- The guide currently says to pad the structure to a multiple of 64-bits. This is not necessary in cases where the structure contains no 64-bit types. Clarify this concept to avoid unnecessary padding. - When using __u64 to hold user pointers, blindly trying to do a cast to a void __user * may generate a warning on 32-bit systems about a cast from an integer to a pointer of different size. There is a macro to deal with this which hides an ugly double cast. Add a reference to this macro. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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64-bit platforms do. So we always need padding to the natural size to get
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this right.
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* Pad the entire struct to a multiple of 64-bits - the structure size will
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otherwise differ on 32-bit versus 64-bit. Having a different structure size
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hurts when passing arrays of structures to the kernel, or if the kernel
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checks the structure size, which e.g. the drm core does.
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* Pad the entire struct to a multiple of 64-bits if the structure contains
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64-bit types - the structure size will otherwise differ on 32-bit versus
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64-bit. Having a different structure size hurts when passing arrays of
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structures to the kernel, or if the kernel checks the structure size, which
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e.g. the drm core does.
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* Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintprt_t on the userspace side and
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from/to a void __user * in the kernel. Try really hard not to delay this
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conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that
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diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide.
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diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide. The macro
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u64_to_user_ptr can be used in the kernel to avoid warnings about integers
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and pointres of different sizes.
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