Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2019-11-21

Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 3/8] powerpc: fix vdso32 for ppc64le

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2019-11-21 15:56:32
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On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 11:02 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:49 PM Ben Hutchings
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Wed, 2019-11-20 at 20:35 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 8:13 PM Ben Hutchings
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 21:34 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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On little-endian 32-bit application running on 64-bit kernels,
the current vdso would read the wrong half of the xtime seconds
field. Change it to return the lower half like it does on
big-endian.
ppc64le doesn't have 32-bit compat so this is only theoretical.
That is probably true. I only looked at the kernel, which today still
supports compat mode for ppc64le, but I saw the patches to disable
it, and I don't think anyone has even attempted building user space
for it.
COMPAT is still enabled for some reason, but VDSO32 isn't (since 4.2).
Ok, I had missed that detail. Should I just drop my patch then?
I think so.

Ben.

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