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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: lkml@davidb.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	drepper@redhat.com, mtk-manpages@gmx.net
Subject: Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:17:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107171742.ee4a1401.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je640dsgj3.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:54:40 +0100 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > diff -puN kernel/compat.c~a kernel/compat.c
> > --- a/kernel/compat.c~a
> > +++ a/kernel/compat.c
> > @@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_times(struct 
> >  		if (copy_to_user(tbuf, &tmp, sizeof(tmp)))
> >  			return -EFAULT;
> >  	}
> > -	return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies);
> > +	return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t((jiffies + INITIAL_JIFFIES) &
> > +						LONG_MAX);
> 
> Are you sure you want LONG_MAX here, not 0x7fffffff?
> 

I'm not sure of anything - I'm just trolling ;)

That's 0x7fffffffffffffff for architectures which implement this function. 
I think that lines up correctly with jiffies and the return value from
compat_sys_times().

Perhaps formally it should be USERSPACE_CLOCK_T_MAX, but we don't have that.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 22:47 compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0 David Brown
2007-11-07 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08  0:18   ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08  0:54     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-08  1:17       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-11-08  1:53     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08  2:09       ` David Miller
2007-11-08 10:20         ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-08 14:42           ` Chris Friesen
2007-11-09 18:20             ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-12-20 11:36               ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-12-20 11:51                 ` David Miller
2007-12-22  0:42                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  1:41                     ` David Miller
2007-12-22  1:45                       ` David Miller
2007-12-22  1:53                         ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  4:36                           ` David Miller
2007-12-22 12:47                             ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  1:49                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-08 19:25         ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-08  3:07       ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08  3:13         ` David Miller
2007-11-08  5:15           ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08  6:24             ` David Miller
2007-11-08  4:59         ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08  5:20           ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08  5:36             ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08  6:12               ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08  6:25             ` David Miller
2007-11-08  7:09               ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08  7:14                 ` David Miller
2007-11-08  8:53               ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08  6:22           ` David Miller
2007-11-08 19:27         ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-08  0:50   ` David Miller
2007-11-08  1:13     ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08  6:00   ` David Brown

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