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SubjectRe: [PATCH] char: ppdev: check if ioctl argument is present and valid
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 5:57 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:57:13PM +0530, Harshal Chaudhari wrote:
> > Checking the argument passed to the ioctl is valid
> > or not. if not then return -EINVAL.
>
> Along the the comments that Arnd made, this is not the correct value to
> be returning from an ioctl when you don't pass in the correct command.
>
> And it doesn't match what your patch says, please be consistent.
>
> And do you have this device to be able to test your changes?

I will test this tomorrow. But from an initial look, its going to
break ppdev. There are few ioctls which don't need any arguments.

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Sudip

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