[NET]: Add a dev_ioctl() fallback to sock_ioctl()
Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default fallback in their ioctl implementations. This patch adds a fallback to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD. This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't need to export dev_ioctl. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -900,6 +900,13 @@ static long sock_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
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break;
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default:
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err = sock->ops->ioctl(sock, cmd, arg);
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/*
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* If this ioctl is unknown try to hand it down
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* to the NIC driver.
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*/
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if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
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err = dev_ioctl(cmd, argp);
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break;
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}
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return err;
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