Hello Nicolas, > I fear that my bug-report yesterday was very badly written, with me writing > to the wrong mailing-list and all. > > I was saying: > >> I found a type mismatch in UML that makes host block devices unusable as ubd >> devices on x86_64 and other 64 bits systems (segfault of the mm subsystem): >> >> In block/ioctl.c, the following lines show that the BLKGETSIZE ioctl expects >> a pointer to a long: >> >> case BLKGETSIZE: >> if ((bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9) > ~0UL) >> return -EFBIG; >> return put_ulong(arg, bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9); >> >> In arch/um/os-Linux/file.c, os_file_size calls it with an int. >> >> The ioctl_list man page should be fixed as well.
manual page changed for 2.65: --- ioctl_list.2 +++ ioctl_list.2 (working copy) @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ 0x0000125D BLKROSET const int * 0x0000125E BLKROGET int * 0x0000125F BLKRRPART void -0x00001260 BLKGETSIZE int * +0x00001260 BLKGETSIZE unsigned long * 0x00001261 BLKFLSBUF void 0x00001262 BLKRASET int 0x00001263 BLKRAGET int * Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
