Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xenforeignmemory: work around bug in older privcmd

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 24.08.18 at 14:16, <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Versions of linux privcmd prior to commit dc9eab6fd94d ("return -ENOTTY
> for unimplemented IOCTLs") will return -EINVAL rather than the conventional
> -ENOTTY for unimplemented codes. This breaks the error path in
> libxenforeignmemory resource mapping, which only translates ENOTTY into
> EOPNOTSUPP to inform callers of the need to use an alternative (legacy)
> mechanism.
> 
> This patch adds a new 'unimplemented' [1] ioctl code into the local
> privcmd header which is then used to probe for the appropriate errno to
> translate in the resource mapping error path
> 
> [1] this is a code that has, so far, never been used in any version of
>     privcmd and will be added to future versions of the header in the
>     linux source, to make sure it stays unimplemented.

Shouldn't this addition happen before the Xen tools side change goes
in?

Jan



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