Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 01/23] y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed Nov 20 2019 - 17:28:36 EST


On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 22:07 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
[...]
> --- a/kernel/time/time.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/time.c
> @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(settimeofday, struct old_timeval32 __user *, tv,
> }
> #endif
>
> -#if !defined(CONFIG_64BIT_TIME) || defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(adjtimex, struct __kernel_timex __user *, txc_p)
> {
> struct __kernel_timex txc; /* Local copy of parameter */
> @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ int get_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts,
> ts->tv_sec = kts.tv_sec;
>
> /* Zero out the padding for 32 bit systems or in compat mode */
> - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT_TIME) && in_compat_syscall())
> + if (in_compat_syscall())
> kts.tv_nsec &= 0xFFFFFFFFUL;
>
> ts->tv_nsec = kts.tv_nsec;
[...]

It's not a problem with this patch, but I noticed that this condition
doesn't match what the comment says. It looks like it was broken by:

commit 98f76206b33504b934209d16196477dfa519a807
Author: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Oct 12 14:42:53 2018 +0100

compat: Cleanup in_compat_syscall() callers

Ben.

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