Re: a question regarding sys_poll() on x86_64 via tha ia32 layer

[Andi Kleen]

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>  
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(poll, struct pollfd __user *, ufds, unsigned int, nfds,
> -		long, timeout_msecs)
> +		int, timeout_msecs)

The preferred fix is normally to write a compat wrapper that sign
extends.

Maybe someone on 64bit really wants to wait for a long time, but 
not forever.

-Andi

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