File 0008-qemu-cvs-ioctl_nodirection.patch of Package qemu.5749

From 7d1e343142e569c725b6ba8396887512150241e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:27:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] qemu-cvs-ioctl_nodirection

the direction given in the ioctl should be correct so we can assume the
communication is uni-directional. The alsa developers did not like this
concept though and declared ioctls IOC_R and IOC_W even though they were
IOC_RW.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Hecht <uli@suse.de>
---
 linux-user/syscall.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index d693f9dcf7..0858920a2d 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -4055,6 +4055,11 @@ static abi_long do_ioctl(int fd, int cmd, abi_long arg)
         arg_type++;
         target_size = thunk_type_size(arg_type, 0);
         switch(ie->access) {
+	/* FIXME: actually the direction given in the ioctl should be
+	 * correct so we can assume the communication is uni-directional.
+	 * The alsa developers did not like this concept though and
+	 * declared ioctls IOC_R and IOC_W even though they were IOC_RW.*/
+/*
         case IOC_R:
             ret = get_errno(ioctl(fd, ie->host_cmd, buf_temp));
             if (!is_error(ret)) {
@@ -4073,6 +4078,7 @@ static abi_long do_ioctl(int fd, int cmd, abi_long arg)
             unlock_user(argptr, arg, 0);
             ret = get_errno(ioctl(fd, ie->host_cmd, buf_temp));
             break;
+*/
         default:
         case IOC_RW:
             argptr = lock_user(VERIFY_READ, arg, target_size, 1);