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From: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] pwm: Allow 32-bit tasks to use the character device
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:44:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928184422.380520-1-danishkhateeb03@gmail.com> (raw)

pwm_cdev_fileops has no .compat_ioctl, so every ioctl on /dev/pwmchipN
fails with -ENOTTY for 32-bit tasks on a 64-bit kernel, e.g. armhf
userspace on arm64.

struct pwmchip_waveform has the same layout for 32-bit and 64-bit tasks,
so compat_ptr_ioctl() is enough. PWM_IOCTL_REQUEST and PWM_IOCTL_FREE
take an integer rather than a pointer, which is fine too: compat_ptr()
only changed the value on s390, which dropped compat support in v6.19.

Fixes: 9c06f26ba5f5 ("pwm: Add support for pwmchip devices for faster and easier userspace access")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
---

Notes:
    Tested on x86_64 in QEMU (pwm/for-next 17dbb6938d3a plus this patch,
    KASAN and lockdep) with a PCA9685 instantiated on i2c-stub, which gets
    /dev/pwmchip0. A test program runs all six ioctls, including the error
    cases (hwpwm out of range or not requested, __pad != 0, use after FREE,
    SETEXACTWF returning -EDOM):
    
    - before: every ioctl from the -m32 build fails with -ENOTTY, while the
      64-bit build works
    - after: the -m32 output matches the 64-bit output line for line
    
    No splats. W=1 builds are clean for arm64 (COMPAT=y, LLVM=1) and for
    i386 (no COMPAT).

 drivers/pwm/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pwm/core.c b/drivers/pwm/core.c
index 2a050ff4608b..4c6d716e5fde 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/core.c
@@ -2389,6 +2389,7 @@ static const struct file_operations pwm_cdev_fileops = {
 	.release = pwm_cdev_release,
 	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 	.unlocked_ioctl = pwm_cdev_ioctl,
+	.compat_ioctl = compat_ptr_ioctl,
 };
 
 static dev_t pwm_devt;

base-commit: 17dbb6938d3ab444cd6be1c95506450595a8800d
-- 
2.55.0


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