Re: [PATCH 13/19] y2038: add compat handling for sys_semtimedop

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 6 May 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE4(semtimedop, int, semid, struct sembuf __user *, tsops,
> +		unsigned, nsops,
> +		const struct __kernel_timespec  __user *, timeout)
> +{
> +	unsigned long jiffies_left = 0;
> +
> +	if (timeout) {
> +		struct timespec64 _timeout;
> +		if (get_timespec64(&_timeout, timeout))

Moo. I had to look 3 times to get not confused by the extra
underscore. What's wrong with a proper variable name which is easy to
distinguish?

> +			return -EFAULT;

> +		if (_timeout.tv_sec < 0 || _timeout.tv_nsec < 0 ||
> +			_timeout.tv_nsec >= 1000000000L)
> +			return -EINVAL;

We have proper helper functions to validate time specs.

Thanks,

	tglx