[BUG] sizeof(struct async_icount) exported to userspace on SH, SH64 and xtensa (fwd)

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Chris,

now that the sh people have fixed it on their ports, xtensa is the only 
port with this issue.

Please fix it.

TIA
Adrian


----- Forwarded message from Russell King <[email protected]> -----

Date:	Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:57:12 +0000
From: Russell King <[email protected]>
To: Linux Kernel List <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [BUG] sizeof(struct async_icount) exported to userspace on SH, SH64 and xtensa

I've just been looking through the remaining cruft in the serial
drivers, and have come across this silly thing:

TIOCGICOUNT exports a structure to userspace called
struct serial_icounter_struct.

However, sh, sh64 and xtensa do this:

include/asm-sh/ioctls.h:#define TIOCGICOUNT     _IOR('T', 93, struct async_icount) /* 0x545D */ /* read serial port inline interrupt counts */
include/asm-sh64/ioctls.h:#define TIOCGICOUNT   0x802c545d      /* _IOR('T', 93, struct async_icount) 0x545D */ /* read serial port inline interrupt counts */
include/asm-xtensa/ioctls.h:#define TIOCGICOUNT _IOR('T', 93, struct async_icount) /* read serial port inline interrupt counts */

What's more is that no driver actually exports async_icount, and
async_icount is a kernel internal structure which does _not_ form
part of the public API, and modifications to this will result in
unexpected breakage on these platforms.

100% for trying to clean up the tty ioctl definitions.  0% for
using the wrong structures.  As such, these _require_ fixing.

Please document that your TIOCGICOUNT is broken and remove the
dependence on the async_icount structure.  Thanks.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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