Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 4 authors, 2015-10-29

Re: [PATCH] btrfs: bugfix: handle FS_IOC32_{GETFLAGS,SETFLAGS,GETVERSION} in btrfs_ioctl

From: Luke Dashjr <hidden>
Date: 2015-05-15 16:35:51
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On Friday, May 15, 2015 11:19:22 AM David Sterba wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:27:54PM +0000, Luke Dashjr wrote:
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On Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:06:17 PM David Sterba wrote:
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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:15:26PM +0000, Luke Dashjr wrote:
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32-bit ioctl uses these rather than the regular FS_IOC_* versions.
They can be handled in btrfs using the same code. Without this,
32-bit {ch,ls}attr fail.
Yes, but this has to be implemented in another way. See eg.
https://git.kernel.org/linus/e9750824114ff
I don't see what is different with that implementation. All
f2fs_compat_ioctl does is change cmd to the plain-IOC equivalent and
call f2fs_ioctl with the same arg (compat_ptr merely causes a cast to
void* and back, which AFAIK is a noop on 64-bit?). Am I missing
something?
No, that's the idea. Add new calback for compat_ioctl, put it under
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT and do the same number switch.
The idea is to wrap it in a way that doesn't actually change any of the logic?
I'm not sure I understand still :(
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I could try to just imitate it, but
I'd rather know what is significant/going on to ensure I don't waste your
time with code I don't even properly understand myself.

Perhaps by coincidence, the patch does at least in practice work
(although at least `btrfs send` appears to be broken still, and I'm at a
loss for how to approach fixing that).
The 'receive' 32bit/64bit was broken due to size difference in the ioctl
structure that led to different ioctl. This is transparently fixed, see
BTRFS_IOC_SET_RECEIVED_SUBVOL_32 at the top of ioctl.c.

In what way is SEND broken? There are only u64/s64 members in
btrfs_ioctl_send_args, I don't see how this could break on 32/64
userspace/kernel.
# btrfs send -p home/initial/ home/20150514_1431573370/
At subvol home/20150514_1431573370/
ERROR: send ioctl failed with -25: Inappropriate ioctl for device

But I am stuck on 3.14.41 due to Linux being unstable in newer versions[1], so 
maybe this is unrelated to 32-bit and already fixed in 4.0?

Luke

1. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87891
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