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Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 18:10:54 +0400
From: Stepan Golosunov <stepan@...osunov.pp.ru>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Paul Eggert <eggert@...ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] y2038: Introduce __ASSUME_64BIT_TIME define
02.05.2019 в 15:04:18 +0000 Joseph Myers написал:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
>
> > - The need for explicit clearing padding when calling syscalls (as to
> > be better safe than sorry in the future - there was related
> > discussion started by Stepan).
>
> This really isn't a difficult question. What it comes down to is whether
> the Linux kernel, in the first release version with these syscalls (we
> don't care about old -rc versions; what matters is the actual 5.1
> release), ignores the padding.
>
> If 5.1 *release* ignores the padding, that is part of the kernel/userspace
> ABI, in accordance with the kernel principle of not breaking userspace.
> Thus, it is something userspace can rely on, now and in the future.
>
> If 5.1 release does not ignore the padding, syscall presence does not mean
> the padding is ignored by the kernel and so glibc needs to clear padding.
> Of course, it needs to clear padding in a *copy* of the value provided by
> the user unless the glibc API in question requires the timespec value in
> question to be in writable memory.
>
> So, which is (or will be) the case in 5.1 release? Padding ignored or
> not? If more complicated (ignored for some architectures / ABIs but not
> for others, or depending on whether compat syscalls are in use), then say
> so - give a precise description of the exact circumstances under which the
> padding around a 32-bit tv_nsec will or will not be ignored by the kernel
> on input from userspace.
In current linux git it looks like padding is correctly ignored in
32-bit kernels (because kernel itself has 32-bit tv_nsec there) but
the code to clear it on compat syscalls in 64-bit kernels seems to be
broken.
The patch to fix this is at
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190429131951.471701-1-arnd@arndb.de/
but it doesn't seem like it has reached Linus yet.
(Hmm. I think that old ipc and socketcall syscalls in 32-bit kernels
are broken without that patch too. They would try to read
__kernel_timespec when callers are passing old_timespec32.)
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