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Bug #18255

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ioctl zeroes the last buffer byte

Added by vihai (Daniele Orlandi) over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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Open
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:105665]

Description

Hello,

I'm running ruby 2.7.4p191 on an armv7 linux and experimenting with GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL ioctl.

The ioctl sanity check is triggered as if the buffer was too small however the size of the buffer passed to ioctl is correct.

io.rb:116:in `ioctl': return value overflowed string (ArgumentError)

If I append at least one byte to the buffer the ioctl does not raise an exception.

It seems that the last byte of the buffer is zeroed:

puts "SIZE=#{req.bytesize}"
req = req + "XXXXXXXXXX".b     
puts req.unpack("H*")       
fd.ioctl(GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL, req)                        
puts req.unpack("H*")     
SIZE=364
[...]0000000000000058585858585858585858
[...]0000000600000058585858585858585800

I checked with a C program and the ioctl does not actually touch the buffer beyond the expected 364 bytes.
The ioctl number does encode 364 as size:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/gpio.h>

void main()
{
  printf("SIZE=%d", _IOC_SIZE(GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL));
}
SIZE=364
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