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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix FREEZE/THAW compat_ioctl regression
So who's going to send this to Linus?  Having freeze/thaw regressed in
2.6.29 would be very sad for all the xfs users.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:57:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Commit 8e961870bb9804110d5c8211d5d9d500451c4518 removed the FREEZE/THAW
> handling in xfs_compat_ioctl but never added any compat handler back, so
> now any freeze/thaw request from a 32-bit binary ond 64-bit userspace
> will fail.
>
> As these ioctls are 32/64-bit compatible two simple COMPATIBLE_IOCTL
> entries in fs/compat_ioctl.c will do the job.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Index: xfs/fs/compat_ioctl.c
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs.orig/fs/compat_ioctl.c 2009-02-16 12:48:23.000000000 +0000
> +++ xfs/fs/compat_ioctl.c 2009-02-16 12:49:34.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1913,6 +1913,9 @@
> /* 0x00 */
> COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(FIBMAP)
> COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(FIGETBSZ)
> +/* 'X' - originally XFS but some now in the VFS */
> +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(FIFREEZE)
> +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(FITHAW)
> /* RAID */
> COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(RAID_VERSION)
> COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(GET_ARRAY_INFO)
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