On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:19 AM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> VDSO_HAS_32BIT_FALLBACK was introduced to address a regression which
> caused seccomp to deny access to the applications to clock_gettime64()
> and clock_getres64() because they are not enabled in the existing
> filters.
>
> The purpose of VDSO_HAS_32BIT_FALLBACK was to simplify the conditional
> implementation of __cvdso_clock_get*time32() variants.
>
> Now that all the architectures that support the generic vDSO library
> have been converted to support the 32 bit fallbacks the conditional
> can be removed.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> References: c60a32ea4f45 ("lib/vdso/32: Provide legacy syscall fallbacks")
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 10 ----------
> 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
> index a86e89e6dedc..2c4b311c226d 100644
> --- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
> +++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
> @@ -126,13 +126,8 @@ __cvdso_clock_gettime32(clockid_t clock, struct old_timespec32 *res)
>
> ret = __cvdso_clock_gettime_common(clock, &ts);
>
> -#ifdef VDSO_HAS_32BIT_FALLBACK
> if (unlikely(ret))
> return clock_gettime32_fallback(clock, res);
> -#else
> - if (unlikely(ret))
> - ret = clock_gettime_fallback(clock, &ts);
> -#endif
>
> if (likely(!ret)) {
> res->tv_sec = ts.tv_sec;
I think you could have a little follow-up patch to remove the if
statement -- by the time you get here, it's guaranteed that ret == 0.
--Andy
