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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 screw 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.
-
- You should also register the magic number used by ioctls in the table
- below. This allows ioctls on inappropriate devices to fail, rather than
- doing something completely unexpected. The magic number is the first
- argument to the _IO family of macros (see include/linux/ioctl.h) or
- in general bits 8..15 of the ioctl number. Where ioctls are done on
- devices with a major device number, it is recommended that you use the
- major device number as the ioctl magic value (e.g. hd, lp).
-
- Theodore Ts'o
- 31-Mar-94
-
- Magic Name Number Structure File
- ===========================================================================
- 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/ppp.h
- 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
- SERIAL_MAGIC 0x5301 struct async_struct include/linux/serial.h
- SLIP_MAGIC 0x5302 struct slip drivers/net/slip.h
-
- Ioctl Include File Comments
- ========================================================
- 0x00 fd.h
- 0x03 hdreg.h
- 0x06 lp.h
- 0x12 fs.h
- 'C' soundcard.h
- 'K' kd.h
- 'M' soundcard.h
- 'P' soundcard.h
- 'Q' soundcard.h
- 'S' cdrom.h
- 'S' fs.h subcodes from 0x80, no conflict
- 'T' soundcard.h conflicts with termios.h
- 'T' termios.h conflicts with soundcard.h
- 'T' ppp.h subcodes from 0x90, no conflict
- 'V' vt.h
- 'f' ext2_fs.h
- 'm' mtio.h conflicts with soundcard.h
- 'm' soundcard.h conflicts with mtio.h
- 's' pcsp.h
- 'v' ext2_fs.h
- 0x89 sockios.h
-
-