Message ID | 20191108210236.1296047-1-arnd@arndb.de (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | y2038 cleanups | expand |
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:04 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > This is a series of cleanups for the y2038 work, mostly intended > for namespace cleaning: the kernel defines the traditional > time_t, timeval and timespec types that often lead to y2038-unsafe > code. Even though the unsafe usage is mostly gone from the kernel, > having the types and associated functions around means that we > can still grow new users, and that we may be missing conversions > to safe types that actually matter. > > As there is no rush on any of these patches, I would either > queue them up in linux-next through my y2038 branch, or > Thomas could add them to the tip tree if he wants. > > As mentioned in another series, this is part of a larger > effort to fix all the remaining bits and pieces that are > not completed yet from the y2038 conversion, and the full > set can be found at: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git/log/?h=y2038-endgame > > Maintainers, please review and provide Acks. > > Let me know if you have any opinion on whether we should do > the include last two patches of this series or not. > > Arnd > > Arnd Bergmann (23): > y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME > y2038: add __kernel_old_timespec and __kernel_old_time_t > y2038: vdso: change timeval to __kernel_old_timeval > y2038: vdso: change timespec to __kernel_old_timespec > y2038: vdso: change time_t to __kernel_old_time_t > y2038: vdso: nds32: open-code timespec_add_ns() > y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references > y2038: ipc: remove __kernel_time_t reference from headers > y2038: stat: avoid 'time_t' in 'struct stat' > y2038: uapi: change __kernel_time_t to __kernel_old_time_t > y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval > y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old_timeval > y2038: socket: remove timespec reference in timestamping > y2038: make ns_to_compat_timeval use __kernel_old_timeval > y2038: elfcore: Use __kernel_old_timeval for process times > y2038: timerfd: Use timespec64 internally > y2038: time: avoid timespec usage in settimeofday() > y2038: itimer: compat handling to itimer.c > y2038: use compat_{get,set}_itimer on alpha > y2038: move itimer reset into itimer.c > y2038: itimer: change implementation to timespec64 > [RFC] y2038: itimer: use ktime_t internally > y2038: allow disabling time32 system calls I've dropped the "[RFC] y2038: itimer: use ktime_t internally" patch for the moment, and added two other patches from other series: y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME y2038: socket: use __kernel_old_timespec instead of timespec Tentatively pushed out the patches with the Acks I have received so far to my y2038 branch on git.kernel.org so it gets included in linux-next. If I hear no complaints, I'll send a pull request for the merge window, along with the compat-ioctl series I have already queued up in the same branch. Arnd