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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-12 16:37:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-12 16:37:13 -0700
commite18afa5bfa4a2f0e07b0864370485df701dacbc1 (patch)
treeba2ad24758dccd2d34b7f5df4326c175c7beb7b0 /include/linux/compat.h
parent85ed13e78dbedf9433115a62c85429922bc5035c (diff)
parent80bdad3d7e3ec03f812471d9309f5f682e10f52b (diff)
Merge branch 'work.quota-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull compat quotactl cleanups from Al Viro: "More Christoph's compat cleanups: quotactl(2)" * 'work.quota-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: quota: simplify the quotactl compat handling compat: add a compat_need_64bit_alignment_fixup() helper compat: lift compat_s64 and compat_u64 to <asm-generic/compat.h>
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diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 59b8c8544ae6..34c48eb1e773 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -911,6 +911,15 @@ static inline bool in_compat_syscall(void) { return false; }
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
/*
+ * Some legacy ABIs like the i386 one use less than natural alignment for 64-bit
+ * types, and will need special compat treatment for that. Most architectures
+ * don't need that special handling even for compat syscalls.
+ */
+#ifndef compat_need_64bit_alignment_fixup
+#define compat_need_64bit_alignment_fixup() false
+#endif
+
+/*
* A pointer passed in from user mode. This should not
* be used for syscall parameters, just declare them
* as pointers because the syscall entry code will have