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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-05 15:40:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-05 15:40:12 -0800
commit07d106d0a33d6063d2061305903deb02489eba20 (patch)
tree6f257f877a9c2e653ca0515253e930fa6606239a /fs
parent805a6af8dba5dfdd35ec35dc52ec0122400b2610 (diff)
vfs: fix up ENOIOCTLCMD error handling
We're doing some odd things there, which already messes up various users (see the net/socket.c code that this removes), and it was going to add yet more crud to the block layer because of the incorrect error code translation. ENOIOCTLCMD is not an error return that should be returned to user mode from the "ioctl()" system call, but it should *not* be translated as EINVAL ("Invalid argument"). It should be translated as ENOTTY ("Inappropriate ioctl for device"). That EINVAL confusion has apparently so permeated some code that the block layer actually checks for it, which is sad. We continue to do so for now, but add a big comment about how wrong that is, and we should remove it entirely eventually. In the meantime, this tries to keep the changes localized to just the EINVAL -> ENOTTY fix, and removing code that makes it harder to do the right thing. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/compat_ioctl.c38
-rw-r--r--fs/ioctl.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/fs/compat_ioctl.c b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
index 51352de88ef1..a10e428b32b4 100644
--- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -1506,35 +1506,6 @@ static long do_ioctl_trans(int fd, unsigned int cmd,
return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
}
-static void compat_ioctl_error(struct file *filp, unsigned int fd,
- unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
-{
- char buf[10];
- char *fn = "?";
- char *path;
-
- /* find the name of the device. */
- path = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
- if (path) {
- fn = d_path(&filp->f_path, path, PAGE_SIZE);
- if (IS_ERR(fn))
- fn = "?";
- }
-
- sprintf(buf,"'%c'", (cmd>>_IOC_TYPESHIFT) & _IOC_TYPEMASK);
- if (!isprint(buf[1]))
- sprintf(buf, "%02x", buf[1]);
- compat_printk("ioctl32(%s:%d): Unknown cmd fd(%d) "
- "cmd(%08x){t:%s;sz:%u} arg(%08x) on %s\n",
- current->comm, current->pid,
- (int)fd, (unsigned int)cmd, buf,
- (cmd >> _IOC_SIZESHIFT) & _IOC_SIZEMASK,
- (unsigned int)arg, fn);
-
- if (path)
- free_page((unsigned long)path);
-}
-
static int compat_ioctl_check_table(unsigned int xcmd)
{
int i;
@@ -1621,13 +1592,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
goto found_handler;
error = do_ioctl_trans(fd, cmd, arg, filp);
- if (error == -ENOIOCTLCMD) {
- static int count;
-
- if (++count <= 50)
- compat_ioctl_error(filp, fd, cmd, arg);
- error = -EINVAL;
- }
+ if (error == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
+ error = -ENOTTY;
goto out_fput;
diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index 1d9b9fcb2db4..066836e81848 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static long vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
error = filp->f_op->unlocked_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
if (error == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
- error = -EINVAL;
+ error = -ENOTTY;
out:
return error;
}