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    net: separate SIOCGIFCONF handling from dev_ioctl() · 36fd633e
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    Only two of dev_ioctl() callers may pass SIOCGIFCONF to it.
    Separating that codepath from the rest of dev_ioctl() allows both
    to simplify dev_ioctl() itself (all other cases work with struct ifreq *)
    *and* seriously simplify the compat side of that beast: all it takes
    is passing to inet_gifconf() an extra argument - the size of individual
    records (sizeof(struct ifreq) or sizeof(struct compat_ifreq)).  With
    dev_ifconf() called directly from sock_do_ioctl()/compat_dev_ifconf()
    that's easy to arrange.
    
    As the result, compat side of SIOCGIFCONF doesn't need any
    allocations, copy_in_user() back and forth, etc.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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