linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/23] y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old

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Date:   Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:44:26 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/23] y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to
 __kernel_old_timeval

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:12:11PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> All of the remaining syscalls that pass a timeval (gettimeofday, utime,
> futimesat) can trivially be changed to pass a __kernel_old_timeval
> instead, which has a compatible layout, but avoids ambiguity with
> the timeval type in user space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Seems reasonable.
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>