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There are two code locations that implement the SG_IO ioctl: the old sg.c driver, and the generic scsi_ioctl helper that is in turn used by multiple drivers. To eradicate the old compat_ioctl conversion handler for the SG_IO command, I implement a readable pair of put_sg_io_hdr() /get_sg_io_hdr() helper functions that can be used for both compat and native mode, and then I call this from both drivers. For the iovec handling, there is already a compat_import_iovec() function that can simply be called in place of import_iovec(). To avoid having to pass the compat/native state through multiple indirections, I mark the SG_IO command itself as compatible in fs/compat_ioctl.c and use in_compat_syscall() to figure out where we are called from. As a side-effect of this, the sg.c driver now also accepts the 32-bit sg_io_hdr format in compat mode using the read/write interface, not just ioctl. This should improve compatiblity with old 32-bit binaries, but it would break if any application intentionally passes the 64-bit data structure in compat mode here. Steffen Maier helped debug an issue in an earlier version of this patch. Cc: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.