doc: ioctl: Add some clarifications to botching-up-ioctls

- The guide currently says to pad the structure to a multiple of
  64-bits. This is not necessary in cases where the structure contains
  no 64-bit types. Clarify this concept to avoid unnecessary padding.
- When using __u64 to hold user pointers, blindly trying to do a cast to
  a void __user * may generate a warning on 32-bit systems about a cast
  from an integer to a pointer of different size. There is a macro to
  deal with this which hides an ugly double cast. Add a reference to
  this macro.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Laura Abbott 2016-09-02 15:42:24 -07:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -34,15 +34,18 @@ will need to add a a 32-bit compat layer:
64-bit platforms do. So we always need padding to the natural size to get
this right.
* Pad the entire struct to a multiple of 64-bits - the structure size will
otherwise differ on 32-bit versus 64-bit. Having a different structure size
hurts when passing arrays of structures to the kernel, or if the kernel
checks the structure size, which e.g. the drm core does.
* Pad the entire struct to a multiple of 64-bits if the structure contains
64-bit types - the structure size will otherwise differ on 32-bit versus
64-bit. Having a different structure size hurts when passing arrays of
structures to the kernel, or if the kernel checks the structure size, which
e.g. the drm core does.
* Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintprt_t on the userspace side and
from/to a void __user * in the kernel. Try really hard not to delay this
conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that
diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide.
diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide. The macro
u64_to_user_ptr can be used in the kernel to avoid warnings about integers
and pointres of different sizes.
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