[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "block: provide compat ioctl for BLKZEROOUT" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Aug 4 09:19:55 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    block: provide compat ioctl for BLKZEROOUT

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From fd988c05290dc46ba30aab55edd6dce991edfb10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:46:23 -0400
Subject: block: provide compat ioctl for BLKZEROOUT

commit 3b3a1814d1703027f9867d0f5cbbfaf6c7482474 upstream.

This patch provides the compat BLKZEROOUT ioctl. The argument is a pointer
to two uint64_t values, so there is no need to translate it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 block/compat_ioctl.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/block/compat_ioctl.c b/block/compat_ioctl.c
index 7e5d474dc6ba..351ba4f9d4eb 100644
--- a/block/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	case BLKROSET:
 	case BLKDISCARD:
 	case BLKSECDISCARD:
+	case BLKZEROOUT:
 	/*
 	 * the ones below are implemented in blkdev_locked_ioctl,
 	 * but we call blkdev_ioctl, which gets the lock for us
--
1.9.1





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