Commit 9cb09e7c authored by Marc Zyngier's avatar Marc Zyngier Committed by Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Add a comment describing the /dev/kvm no_compat handling

Add a comment explaining the rational behind having both
no_compat open and ioctl callbacks to fend off compat tasks.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent ed69a6cb
......@@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioctl,
unsigned long arg);
#define KVM_COMPAT(c) .compat_ioctl = (c)
#else
/*
* For architectures that don't implement a compat infrastructure,
* adopt a double line of defense:
* - Prevent a compat task from opening /dev/kvm
* - If the open has been done by a 64bit task, and the KVM fd
* passed to a compat task, let the ioctls fail.
*/
static long kvm_no_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioctl,
unsigned long arg) { return -EINVAL; }
......
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