[PATCH v2] ioctl: fix ioctl command number decoding in case of conflicts

Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobsson at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 15:21:53 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 02:49:11PM +0100, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:11:55AM +0200, Gabriel Laskar wrote:
>> >> When a command number was decoded through ioctl_decode_command_number(),
>> >> there was no check for conflicts with other potential ioctls numbers.
>> >
>> > Merged, thanks.
>>
>> Hi, sorry for noticing this a bit late but this change makes it
>> impossible to override the ioctl decoding for drm. The correct
>> decoding can be done by identifying the driver and I need a way to
>> stop the generic decoding at that point.
>
> Do you mean that you want to be able to turn off ioctl_lookup completely?

Yes that was my idea. ioctl_lookup() doesn't know about the drm driver
backing the device so it cannot give us the correct ioctl.

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> ldv




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