Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:56:40 -0800 (PST) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/compat: fix dev_ifsioc emulation corner cases | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:39:40 +0100
> Handling for SIOCSHWTSTAMP is broken on architectures > with a split user/kernel address space like s390, > because it passes a real user pointer while using > set_fs(KERNEL_DS). > A similar problem might arise the next time somebody > adds code to dev_ifsioc. > > Split up dev_ifsioc into three separate functions for > SIOCSHWTSTAMP, SIOC*IFMAP and all other numbers so > we can get rid of set_fs in all potentially affected > cases. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Applied.
> Resending this one as well, rebased to current net-next. > Please tell me if you want a backport to 2.6.32 or -stable > for this one. >
No.
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