Hello Nicolas,

I fear that my bug-report yesterday was very badly written, with me writing
to the wrong mailing-list and all.

I was saying:

quoted

I found a type mismatch in UML that makes host block devices unusable as ubd
devices on x86_64 and other 64 bits systems (segfault of the mm subsystem):

In block/ioctl.c, the following lines show that the BLKGETSIZE ioctl expects
a pointer to a long:

	case BLKGETSIZE:
		if ((bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9) > ~0UL)
			return -EFBIG;
		return put_ulong(arg, bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9);

In arch/um/os-Linux/file.c, os_file_size calls it with an int.

The ioctl_list man page should be fixed as well.

manual page changed for 2.65:

--- ioctl_list.2
+++ ioctl_list.2        (working copy)

@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
 0x0000125D  BLKROSET                   const int *
 0x0000125E  BLKROGET                   int *
 0x0000125F  BLKRRPART                  void
-0x00001260  BLKGETSIZE                 int *
+0x00001260  BLKGETSIZE                 unsigned long *
 0x00001261  BLKFLSBUF                  void
 0x00001262  BLKRASET                   int
 0x00001263  BLKRAGET                   int *

Thanks,

Michael

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