25.05.2015, 14:45, "John Baldwin" <j...@freebsd.org>:
> On Sunday, May 24, 2015 11:24:15 AM Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
>> Author: melifaro
>> Date: Sun May 24 11:24:14 2015
>> New Revision: 283364
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/283364
>>
>> Log:
>> Fix SIOCGI2C structure requirement.
>>
>> In reality, SIOCGI2C ioctl requires struct ifreq as many other
>> ioctls. Doing copyin() on (significantly) larger struct ifstat sometimes
>> triggered EFAULT.
>>
>> Reported by: Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier at cochard.me>
>> MFC after: 1 week
>
> Note that this breaks the ABI. You may wish to add a SIOCGI2C_OLD that
In general, yes. Since this was not merged to -stable and I'm mostly sure that
ifconfig
is the only user - this is most likely OK.
> still uses the larger struct so that old programs continue to work. OTOH,
> they were only working by accident before. If we expect that no code
Well, yes. I'm wondering why this worked at all (copyout tried to get 8XX bytes
instead of 32).
> outside of ifconfig is using this yet, then it is probably ok to let this
> slide.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
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