Hi Arnd,
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 7:59 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 'struct timex' is one of the last users of 'struct timeval' and is
> only referenced in one place in the kernel any more, to convert the
> user space timex into the kernel-internal version on sparc64, with a
> different tv_usec member type.
>
> As a preparation for hiding the time_t definition and everything
> using that in the kernel, change the implementation once more
> to only convert the timeval member, and then enclose the
> struct definition in an #ifdef.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
> include/uapi/linux/timex.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
> index 9f41a6f5a032..1c85b0af4dfd 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
> @@ -548,34 +548,35 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getdomainname, char __user *, name, int, len)
> return err;
> }
>
> -SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc_adjtimex, struct timex __user *, txc_p)
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc_adjtimex, struct __kernel_timex __user *, txc_p)
> {
> - struct timex txc; /* Local copy of parameter */
> - struct __kernel_timex *kt = (void *)&txc;
> + struct __kernel_timex txc;
> + __kernel_old_timeval *tv = (void *)&txc->time;
> int ret;
>
> /* Copy the user data space into the kernel copy
> * structure. But bear in mind that the structures
> * may change
> */
> - if (copy_from_user(&txc, txc_p, sizeof(struct timex)))
> + if (copy_from_user(&txc, txc_p, sizeof(txc)))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> /*
> * override for sparc64 specific timeval type: tv_usec
> * is 32 bit wide instead of 64-bit in __kernel_timex
> */
> - kt->time.tv_usec = txc.time.tv_usec;
> + kt->time.tv_usec = tv->tv_usec;
Am I mis-reading the patch, or is "kt" not defined?
Thanks,
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Julian Calaby
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