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Subject: Re: BLKGETSIZE64 is broken (0x80041272)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 18:42, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I was adding ioctl translations and found that BLKGETSIZE64
> equals 0x80041272, with wrong size. Apparently, a whole bunch
> of ioctls takes sizeof(sizeof(foo)), which evaluates to 4
> in 32 bit userland, regardless of the size of foo.
> Are we going to do anything about it?

Anton and I noticed this a few months ago, we just handle it
the way it needs to be in the ioctl32 translation layers of
ppc64 and sparc64.  I believe we even notified people such
as Andi Kleen at the time this was discovered by Anton.

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David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
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