Re: kern/58235: compat_netbsd32 broken for SIOCGIFDATA

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/58235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/58235: compat_netbsd32 broken for SIOCGIFDATA
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 09:57:42 -0700 (PDT)

 On Wed, 8 May 2024, Martin Husemann wrote:
 
 > At first glance it is trivial to add. The ioctl arg includes if_data,
 > which is *nearly* constant size but has a struct timespec at the end,
 > so the size of the struct will vary slightly (causing the numeric value
 > of the ioctl to not match) and the only translation needed is a
 > netbsd32_to_timespec() for ifi_lastchange.
 
 Hmmm, IIRC the struct timespec could cause problems as that was
 changed in compat_50.  So you might need to add more compat code
 there, too.
 
 
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