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Viresh Kumar
8dd765a5d7
Using indirect pointers in an ioctl command argument means that the
layout is architecture specific, in particular we can't use the same one
from 32-bit compat tasks. The general recommendation is to have __u64
members and use u64_to_user_ptr() to access it from the kernel if we are
unable to avoid the pointers altogether.
Fixes: f8941e6c4c ("xen: privcmd: Add support for irqfd")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/268a2031-63b8-4c7d-b1e5-8ab83ca80b4a@app.fastmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a4ef0d4a68fc858b34a81fd3f9877d9b6898eb77.1697439990.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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