[PATCH v2 0/9] vDSO: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
From: Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-30 07:38:38
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If CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME is disabled then the vDSO should not provide any 32-bit time related functionality. This is the intended effect of the kconfig option and also the fallback system calls would also not be implemented. Currently the kconfig option does not affect the gettimeofday() syscall, so also keep that in the vDSO. I also tried to introduce some helpers to avoid much of the ifdeffery, but due to the high variance in the architecture-specific glue code these would need to handle they ended up being worse than the current proposal. As a side-effect this will make the self-tests more reliable, as there is now always a matching syscall available for each vDSO function. clock_gettime_time64() was only introduced in v6.19, so libc implementations are likely not using it yet. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <redacted> --- Changes in v2: - Also handle SPARC. - Drop MIPS cleanup patches. - Also handle gettimeofday(). - Add more static validations. - Rebase on v7.2-rc1. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260227-vdso-compat_32bit_time-v1-0-3f0286a7bac3@linutronix.de (local) To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> To: x86@kernel.org To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> To: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org> To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> To: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> To: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> To: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org --- Thomas Weißschuh (9): time: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME for old time type functions vdso/gettimeofday: Validate system call existence for time() and gettimeofday() x86/vdso: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME arm64: vdso32: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME ARM: VDSO: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME powerpc/vdso: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME MIPS: VDSO: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME sparc: vdso: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME vdso/gettimeofday: Verify COMPAT_32BIT_TIME interactions arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 2 ++ arch/arm/vdso/vgettimeofday.c | 14 ++++++++------ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.lds.S | 2 ++ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vgettimeofday.c | 14 ++++++++------ arch/mips/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 2 ++ arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c | 3 +++ arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S | 8 ++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds.S | 10 ++++++---- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.c | 16 ++++++++++------ arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 4 ++++ arch/sparc/vdso/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S | 6 ++++-- arch/x86/entry/vdso/common/vclock_gettime.c | 20 ++++++++++++-------- arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S | 2 ++ kernel/sys_ni.c | 4 ++++ kernel/time/time.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 16 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) --- base-commit: e6da2429169af9b33f3629b69905d89bb5ee9e64 change-id: 20260113-vdso-compat_32bit_time-e808763e976a Best regards, -- Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) [off-list ref]