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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ioctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt index d02cfb48901c..883fb034bd04 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt @@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ will have a second iteration or at least an extension for any given interface. future extensions is going right down the gutters since someone will submit an ioctl struct with random stack garbage in the yet unused parts. Which then bakes in the ABI that those fields can never be used for anything else - but garbage. + but garbage. This is also the reason why you must explicitly pad all + structures, even if you never use them in an array - the padding the compiler + might insert could contain garbage. * Have simple testcases for all of the above. diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt index 150e5525e16a..480c8609dc58 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt @@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ Code Seq#(hex) Include File Comments 'd' 02-40 pcmcia/ds.h conflict! 'd' F0-FF linux/digi1.h 'e' all linux/digi1.h conflict! -'e' 00-1F drivers/net/irda/irtty-sir.h conflict! 'f' 00-1F linux/ext2_fs.h conflict! 'f' 00-1F linux/ext3_fs.h conflict! 'f' 00-0F fs/jfs/jfs_dinode.h conflict! @@ -247,7 +246,6 @@ Code Seq#(hex) Include File Comments 'm' all linux/synclink.h conflict! 'm' 00-19 drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.h conflict! 'm' 00 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_ioctl.h conflict! -'m' 00-1F net/irda/irmod.h conflict! 'n' 00-7F linux/ncp_fs.h and fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c 'n' 80-8F uapi/linux/nilfs2_api.h NILFS2 'n' E0-FF linux/matroxfb.h matroxfb @@ -298,7 +296,8 @@ Code Seq#(hex) Include File Comments 0x90 00 drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.h 0x92 00-0F drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c 0x93 60-7F linux/auto_fs.h -0x94 all fs/btrfs/ioctl.h +0x94 all fs/btrfs/ioctl.h Btrfs filesystem + and linux/fs.h some lifted to vfs/generic 0x97 00-7F fs/ceph/ioctl.h Ceph file system 0x99 00-0F 537-Addinboard driver <mailto:buk@buks.ipn.de> @@ -329,6 +328,7 @@ Code Seq#(hex) Include File Comments 0xCA 80-BF uapi/scsi/cxlflash_ioctl.h 0xCB 00-1F CBM serial IEC bus in development: <mailto:michael.klein@puffin.lb.shuttle.de> +0xCC 00-0F drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h pseries VMC driver 0xCD 01 linux/reiserfs_fs.h 0xCF 02 fs/cifs/ioctl.c 0xDB 00-0F drivers/char/mwave/mwavepub.h |