2005-05-18 15:28:19

by Stephen C. Tweedie

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Subject: [PATCH] Fix filp being passed through raw ioctl handler

Don't pass meaningless file handles to block device ioctls.

The recent raw IO ioctl-passthrough fix started passing the raw file
handle into the block device ioctl handler. That's unlikely to be
useful, as the file handle is actually open on a character-mode raw
device, not a block device, so dereferencing it is not going to yield
useful results to a block device ioctl handler.

Previously we just passed NULL; also not a value that can usefully
be dereferenced, but at least if it does happen, we'll oops instead of
silently pretending that the file is a block device, so NULL is the more
defensive option here. This patch reverts to that behaviour.

Noticed by Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Tweedie <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

---
commit 844f68d0f8b098a80ccd6802c38daa7db05e00bd
tree 821049ac4ae8c959b67fab0ef8589007d6c8d048
parent ca3b9a7031878ad74f53734caba806a2ece34486
author Stephen Tweedie <[email protected]> Tue, 17 May 2005 18:30:49 +0100
committer Stephen Tweedie <[email protected]> Tue, 17 May 2005 18:30:49 +0100

char/raw.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: drivers/char/raw.c
===================================================================
--- 9cbd94d6df022eeb8f467da9ad5b7ed2c6843a96/drivers/char/raw.c (mode:100644)
+++ 821049ac4ae8c959b67fab0ef8589007d6c8d048/drivers/char/raw.c (mode:100644)
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
{
struct block_device *bdev = filp->private_data;

- return blkdev_ioctl(bdev->bd_inode, filp, command, arg);
+ return blkdev_ioctl(bdev->bd_inode, NULL, command, arg);
}

static void bind_device(struct raw_config_request *rq)