tree bc9735ed3ccda810634173f01528741cefc71a6c
parent 2be8e3ee8efd6f99ce454115c29d09750915021a
author Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> 1191985155 -0700
committer Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> 1191985155 -0700

IB/umad: Fix bit ordering and 32-on-64 problems on big endian systems

The declaration of struct ib_user_mad_reg_req.method_mask[] exported
to userspace was an array of __u32, but the kernel internally treated
it as a bitmap made up of longs.  This makes a difference for 64-bit
big-endian kernels, where numbering the bits in an array of__u32 gives:

    |31.....0|63....31|95....64|127...96|

while numbering the bits in an array of longs gives:

    |63..............0|127............64|

64-bit userspace can handle this by just treating method_mask[] as an
array of longs, but 32-bit userspace is really stuck: the meaning of
the bits in method_mask[] depends on whether the kernel is 32-bit or
64-bit, and there's no sane way for userspace to know that.

Fix this by updating <rdma/ib_user_mad.h> to make it clear that
method_mask[] is an array of longs, and using a compat_ioctl method to
convert to an array of 64-bit longs to handle the 32-on-64 problem.
This fixes the interface description to match existing behavior (so
working binaries continue to work) in almost all situations, and gives
consistent semantics in the case of 32-bit userspace that can run on
either a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel, so that the same binary can work for
both 32-on-32 and 32-on-64 systems.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>