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Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:21:48 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Arnd Bergmann <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/vdso: Change time() prototype to match
 __vdso_time()

Commit-ID:  88edb57d1e0b262e669c5cad36646dcf5a7f37f5
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/88edb57d1e0b262e669c5cad36646dcf5a7f37f5
Author:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
AuthorDate: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 16:01:55 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 21:31:46 +0100

x86/vdso: Change time() prototype to match __vdso_time()

gcc-8 warns that time() is an alias for __vdso_time() but the two
have different prototypes:

  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:327:5: error: 'time' alias between functions of incompatible types 'int(time_t *)' {aka 'int(long int *)'} and 'time_t(time_t *)' {aka 'long int(long int *)'} [-Werror=attribute-alias]
   int time(time_t *t)
       ^~~~
  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:318:16: note: aliased declaration here

I could not figure out whether this is intentional, but I see that
changing it to return time_t avoids the warning.

Returning 'int' from time() is also a bit questionable, as it causes an
overflow in y2038 even on 64-bit architectures that use a 64-bit time_t
type. On 32-bit architecture with 64-bit time_t, time() should always
be implement by the C library by calling a (to be added) clock_gettime()
variant that takes a sufficiently wide argument.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150203.852959-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index 11b13c4..f19856d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -324,5 +324,5 @@ notrace time_t __vdso_time(time_t *t)
 		*t = result;
 	return result;
 }
-int time(time_t *t)
+time_t time(time_t *t)
 	__attribute__((weak, alias("__vdso_time")));