netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 02/12] socket: move compat timeout handling into sock.c

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Message-ID: <CAF=yD-LNyuywx4_ktyy3JcOd1pvFeKb1wyvDj59kbZoVLp4Lxg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:58:21 -0800
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        y2038 Mailman List <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 02/12] socket: move compat timeout handling
 into sock.c

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 7:48 AM Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> This is a cleanup to prepare for the addition of 64-bit time_t
> in O_SNDTIMEO/O_RCVTIMEO. The existing compat handler seems
> unnecessarily complex and error-prone, moving it all into the
> main setsockopt()/getsockopt() implementation requires half
> as much code and is easier to extend.
>
> 32-bit user space can now use old_timeval32 on both 32-bit
> and 64-bit machines, while 64-bit code can use
> __old_kernel_timeval.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
> ---

> @@ -1121,7 +1155,8 @@ int sock_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
>                 int val;
>                 u64 val64;
>                 struct linger ling;
> -               struct timeval tm;
> +               struct old_timeval32 tm32;
> +               struct __kernel_old_timeval tm;

nit: not used?

same for stm added later in the series