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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-02-01 18:54:11 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-02-02 14:09:12 -0800
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compat: Get rid of (get|put)_compat_time(val|spec)
We have two APIs for compatiblity timespec/val, with confusingly similar names. compat_(get|put)_time(val|spec) *do* handle the case where COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is set, whereas (get|put)_compat_time(val|spec) do not. This is an accident waiting to happen. Clean it up by favoring the full-service version; the limited version is replaced with double-underscore versions static to kernel/compat.c. A common pattern is to convert a struct timespec to kernel format in an allocation on the user stack. Unfortunately it is open-coded in several places. Since this allocation isn't actually needed if COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is true (since user format == kernel format) encapsulate that whole pattern into the function compat_convert_timespec(). An equivalent function should be written for struct timeval if it is needed in the future. Finally, get rid of compat_(get|put)_timeval_convert(): each was only used once, and the latter was not even doing what the function said (no conversion actually was being done.) Moving the conversion into compat_sys_settimeofday() itself makes the code much more similar to sys_settimeofday() itself. v3: Remove unused compat_convert_timeval(). v2: Drop bogus "const" in the destination argument for compat_convert_time*(). Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Tested-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compat.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compat.h23
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 3f448c65511b..f7d5bc0a239f 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -141,26 +141,23 @@ struct compat_sigaction {
};
/*
- * These functions operate strictly on struct compat_time*
- */
-extern int get_compat_timespec(struct timespec *,
- const struct compat_timespec __user *);
-extern int put_compat_timespec(const struct timespec *,
- struct compat_timespec __user *);
-extern int get_compat_timeval(struct timeval *,
- const struct compat_timeval __user *);
-extern int put_compat_timeval(const struct timeval *,
- struct compat_timeval __user *);
-/*
* These functions operate on 32- or 64-bit specs depending on
- * COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME, hence the void user pointer arguments and the
- * naming as compat_get/put_ rather than get/put_compat_.
+ * COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME, hence the void user pointer arguments.
*/
extern int compat_get_timespec(struct timespec *, const void __user *);
extern int compat_put_timespec(const struct timespec *, void __user *);
extern int compat_get_timeval(struct timeval *, const void __user *);
extern int compat_put_timeval(const struct timeval *, void __user *);
+/*
+ * This function convert a timespec if necessary and returns a *user
+ * space* pointer. If no conversion is necessary, it returns the
+ * initial pointer. NULL is a legitimate argument and will always
+ * output NULL.
+ */
+extern int compat_convert_timespec(struct timespec __user **,
+ const void __user *);
+
struct compat_iovec {
compat_uptr_t iov_base;
compat_size_t iov_len;