The commit says
Once upon a time net/socket.c:dev_ifsioc() used to handle SIOCSHWTSTAMP and
SIOCSIFMAP. These have different native and compat layout, so the format
conversion had been needed. In 2009 these two cases had been taken out,
turning the rest into a convoluted way to calling sock_do_ioctl(). We copy
compat structure into native one, call sock_do_ioctl() on that and copy
the result back for the in/out ioctls. No layout transformation anywhere,
so we might as well just call sock_do_ioctl() and skip all the headache with
copying.
However there is one problem: 32-bit 'struct ifreq' and 64-bit 'struct
ifreq' are not the same size. The former is 32 bytes and the latter is
40 bytes. Thus, if you place a 32-bit 'struct ifreq' immediately
before an unmapped page and try to pass it to one of these ioctls, the
syscall fails with EFAULT due to this commit.
More details including test program in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199469.
I found this bug running the rr test suite.
Thanks,
Rob
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