From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl

The patch below adds a new system call mknod64 for i386.  If there are no
objections I'll add it to the other architectures as well.

Note that the prototype is

mknod64(const char *name, int mode, unsigned int devhi, unsigned int devlo)

(and not ...  unsigned int major, unsigned int minor).




 arch/i386/kernel/entry.S  |    3 ++-
 fs/namei.c                |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/asm-i386/unistd.h |    3 ++-
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~ia32-mknod64 arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~ia32-mknod64	2003-07-11 01:28:51.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S	2003-07-11 01:28:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
  	.long sys_clock_nanosleep
 	.long sys_statfs64
 	.long sys_fstatfs64	
-	.long sys_tgkill
+	.long sys_tgkill		/* 270 */
+	.long sys_mknod64
  
 nr_syscalls=(.-sys_call_table)/4
diff -puN fs/namei.c~ia32-mknod64 fs/namei.c
--- 25/fs/namei.c~ia32-mknod64	2003-07-11 01:28:51.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/namei.c	2003-07-11 01:28:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -1424,11 +1424,12 @@ int vfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct 
 	return error;
 }
 
-asmlinkage long sys_mknod(const char __user * filename, int mode, dev_t dev)
+static long
+do_mknod(const char __user *filename, int mode, dev_t dev)
 {
 	int error = 0;
-	char * tmp;
-	struct dentry * dentry;
+	char *tmp;
+	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct nameidata nd;
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(mode))
@@ -1469,6 +1470,27 @@ out:
 	return error;
 }
 
+asmlinkage long
+sys_mknod(const char __user *filename, int mode, unsigned int devnr)
+{
+	dev_t dev = devnr;
+
+	if (dev != devnr)
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+	return do_mknod(filename, mode, dev);
+}
+
+asmlinkage long
+sys_mknod64(const char __user *filename, int mode,
+	    unsigned int major, unsigned int minor)
+{
+	dev_t dev = MKDEV(major, minor);
+
+	if (MAJOR(dev) != major || MINOR(dev) != minor)
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+	return do_mknod(filename, mode, dev);
+}
+
 int vfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
 {
 	int error = may_create(dir, dentry, NULL);
diff -puN include/asm-i386/unistd.h~ia32-mknod64 include/asm-i386/unistd.h
--- 25/include/asm-i386/unistd.h~ia32-mknod64	2003-07-11 01:28:51.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/include/asm-i386/unistd.h	2003-07-11 01:28:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -276,8 +276,9 @@
 #define __NR_statfs64		268
 #define __NR_fstatfs64		269
 #define __NR_tgkill		270
+#define __NR_mknod64		271
 
-#define NR_syscalls 271
+#define NR_syscalls 272
 
 /* user-visible error numbers are in the range -1 - -124: see <asm-i386/errno.h> */
 

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