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- This file is a registry of magic numbers which are in use. When you
- add a magic number to a structure, you should also add it to this
- file, since it is best if the magic numbers used by various structures
- are unique.
-
- It is a *very* good idea to protect kernel data structures with magic
- numbers. This allows you to check at run time whether (a) a structure
- has been clobbered, or (b) you've passed the wrong structure to a
- routine. This last is especially useful --- particularly when you are
- passing pointers to structures via a void * pointer. The tty code,
- for example, does this frequently to pass driver-specific and line
- discipline-specific structures back and forth.
-
- The way to use magic numbers is to declare then at the beginning of
- the structure, like so:
-
- struct tty_ldisc {
- int magic;
- ...
- };
-
- Please follow this discipline when you are adding future enhancements
- to the kernel! It has saved me countless hours of debugging,
- especially in the screwy cases where an array has been overrun and
- structures following the array have been overwritten. Using this
- discipline, these cases get detected quickly and safely.
-
- Theodore Ts'o
- 31-Mar-94
-
- The magic table is current to Linux 1.3.98.
-
- Michael Chastain
- <mec@duracef.shout.net>
- 6 May 1996
-
-
-
- Magic Name Number Structure File
- ===========================================================================
- RISCOM8_MAGIC 0x0907 struct riscom_port drivers/char/riscom8.h
- APM_BIOS_MAGIC 0x4101 struct apm_struct include/linux/apm_bios.h
- CYCLADES_MAGIC 0x4359 struct cyclades_port include/linux/cyclades.h
- FASYNC_MAGIC 0x4601 struct fasync_struct include/linux/fs.h
- PTY_MAGIC 0x5001 struct pty_struct drivers/char/pty.c
- PPP_MAGIC 0x5002 struct ppp_struct include/linux/if_ppp.h
- SERIAL_MAGIC 0x5301 struct async_struct include/linux/serial.h
- SLIP_MAGIC 0x5302 struct slip drivers/net/slip.h
- STRIP_MAGIC 0x5303 struct strip drivers/net/strip.c
- TTY_MAGIC 0x5401 struct tty_struct include/linux/tty.h
- TTY_DRIVER_MAGIC 0x5402 struct tty_driver include/linux/tty_driver.h
- TTY_LDISC_MAGIC 0x5403 struct tty_ldisc include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
- SCC_MAGIC 0x8530 struct scc_channel include/linux/scc.h
- ISDN_ASYNC_MAGIC 0x49344C01 modem_info include/linux/isdn.h
- ISDN_NET_MAGIC 0x49344C02 isdn_net_ndev include/linux/isdn.h
- STLI_BOARDMAGIC 0x4bc6c825 stlibrd_t include/linux/istallion.h
- STLI_PORTMAGIC 0xe671c7a1 stliport_t include/linux/istallion.h
- STL_PANELMAGIC 0x7ef621a1 stlpanel_t include/linux/stallion.h
- STL_BOARDMAGIC 0xa2267f52 stlbrd_t include/linux/stallion.h
- STL_PORTMAGIC 0x5a7182c9 stlport_t include/linux/stallion.h
- PCXX_MAGIC 0x5c6df104 struct channel drivers/char/pcxx.h
- BAYCOM_MAGIC 0x3105bac0 struct baycom_state drivers/char/baycom.c
-
-