Support for handling the PPPOEIOCSFWD ioctl in compat mode was added in linux-2.5.69 along with hundreds of other commands, but was always broken sincen only the structure is compatible, but the command number is not, due to the size being sizeof(size_t), or at first sizeof(sizeof((struct sockaddr_pppox)), which is different on 64-bit architectures. Guillaume Nault adds: And the implementation was broken until 2016 (see 29e73269aa4d ("pppoe: fix reference counting in PPPoE proxy")), and nobody ever noticed. I should probably have removed this ioctl entirely instead of fixing it. Clearly, it has never been used. Fix it by adding a compat_ioctl handler for all pppoe variants that translates the command number and then calls the regular ioctl function. All other ioctl commands handled by pppoe are compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit, and require compat_ptr() conversion. This should apply to all stable kernels. Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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