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uapi: change TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER to avoid collision with TCGETS

PATCH New Dmitry V. Levin 1 participant 1 message Jun 30, 2024

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PATCH 1/1 uapi: change TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER to avoid collision with TCGETS

The number that was initially chosen for TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER, unfortunately, collides with TCGETS on most of architectures.

For example, this is how strace output would look like when support for this value of TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER is added:

$ strace -e ioctl stty
ioctl(0, TCGETS or TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER, {c_iflag=ICRNL|IXON, c_oflag=NL0|CR0|TAB0|BS0|VT0|FF0|OPOST|ONLCR,
+c_cflag=B38400|CS8|CREAD, c_lflag=ISIG|ICANON|ECHO|ECHOE|ECHOK|IEXTEN|ECHOCTL|ECHOKE, ...}) = 0

Even though ioctl numbers are inherently not unique, TCGETS is a very traditional one, so let's change the value of TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER a bit to avoid this collision.

Given that _IO('T', 0x1) is _IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'T', 0x1, 0), something like _IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'T', 0x1, 0x1) should be OK.

Fixes cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer")
---
 include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h +1 -1
index bd1066754220..cb858f1b8367 100644
@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@ struct trace_buffer_meta {
 	__u64	Reserved2;
 };
 
-#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER		_IO('T', 0x1)
+#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER		_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'T', 0x1, 0x1)
 
 #endif /* _TRACE_MMAP_H_ */
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