From: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:43:16 +0100
> Back a long time ago, I already fixed a few of these by passing > the size of the struct ifreq to do_sock_ioctl(). However, Robert > found more cases, and now it won't be as simple because we'd have > to pass that down all the way to e.g. bond_do_ioctl() which isn't > really feasible. > > Therefore, restore the old code. > > While looking at why SIOCGIFNAME was broken, I realized that Al > had removed that case - which had been handled in an explicit > separate function - as well, and looking through his work at the > time I saw that bond ioctls were also affected by the erroneous > removal. > > I've restored SIOCGIFNAME and bond ioctls by going through the > (now renamed) dev_ifsioc() instead of reintroducing their own > helper functions, which I hope is correct but have only tested > with SIOCGIFNAME. I see some back and forth between you and Al, where do we stand at this point? >From what I can see this looks like probably the simplest way to fix this in net and -stable currently. Please let me know. Thanks.
