[RFC PATCH v1 5/7] media: v4l2: introduce two IOCTLs for face detection

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 02 December 2011 17:12:56 Ming Lei wrote:
> +/**
> + * struct v4l2_fd_result - VIDIOC_G_FD_RESULT argument
> + * @buf_index: entry, index of v4l2_buffer for face detection
> + * @face_cnt:  return, how many faces detected from the @buf_index
> + * @fd:                return, result of faces' detection
> + */
> +struct v4l2_fd_result {
> +       __u32   buf_index;
> +       __u32   face_cnt;
> +       __u32   reserved[6];
> +       struct v4l2_fd_detection *fd;
> +};


This data structure is not 32/64 bit safe: running a 64 bit kernel with 32 bit
user space will see an incompatible layout.

One way to solve this is to remove the pointer and just start the array
directly after the __u32 members. Alternatively, you can use a __u64
to pass the pointer in an integer representation.

A nicer interface from the data structure perspective would be to
get rid of the array altogether and always return exactly one face.

	Arnd