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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.20.13.2001201544180.7204@monopod.intra.ispras.ru> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:57:33 +0300 (MSK) From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com cc: Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@...ber.fsf.org> Subject: Re: [BUG] ioctl: overflow in implicit constant conversion I'll reiterate points raised previously in https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2017/08/30/10 On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > this is a conformance bug, since posix specifies int. > > one could argue that linux requires unsigned long, but > the correct way to introduce linux specific apis is to > give them a different name, not something that clashes > with standard names that have specified semantics. But _why_ does POSIX specify 'int' there? Checking on freebsd.org man pages I see that all BSD flavours had 'unsigned long' and Linux followed that. Did POSIX fail to document prevailing practice in this case? I still think the warning points to a bigger problem that with musl the kernel receives a sign-extended value. So I think ioctl.c should be fixed to not sign-extend the value, _IO macros could be changed to use (int)sizeof(c) instead of sizeof(c), and if silencing -Wsign-conversion is also desired, #ifdef __GNUC__ #define ioctl(fd, req, ...) ioctl(fd, (int)(req), ##__VA_ARGS__) #endif Alexander
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