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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-02-01 18:54:11 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-02-02 14:09:12 -0800
commit81993e81a994504f4c8b97d3410c9a052cdbcc9d (patch)
tree7471cde617f11dad2f29187daa764e1d119a9731 /ipc/compat.c
parent5cb480f6b488128140c940abff3c36f524a334a8 (diff)
downloadlinux-81993e81a994504f4c8b97d3410c9a052cdbcc9d.tar.gz
compat: Get rid of (get|put)_compat_time(val|spec)
We have two APIs for compatiblity timespec/val, with confusingly
similar names.  compat_(get|put)_time(val|spec) *do* handle the case
where COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is set, whereas
(get|put)_compat_time(val|spec) do not.  This is an accident waiting
to happen.

Clean it up by favoring the full-service version; the limited version
is replaced with double-underscore versions static to kernel/compat.c.

A common pattern is to convert a struct timespec to kernel format in
an allocation on the user stack.  Unfortunately it is open-coded in
several places.  Since this allocation isn't actually needed if
COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is true (since user format == kernel format)
encapsulate that whole pattern into the function
compat_convert_timespec().  An equivalent function should be written
for struct timeval if it is needed in the future.

Finally, get rid of compat_(get|put)_timeval_convert(): each was only
used once, and the latter was not even doing what the function said
(no conversion actually was being done.)  Moving the conversion into
compat_sys_settimeofday() itself makes the code much more similar to
sys_settimeofday() itself.

v3: Remove unused compat_convert_timeval().

v2: Drop bogus "const" in the destination argument for
    compat_convert_time*().

Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/compat.c')
-rw-r--r--ipc/compat.c12
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/compat.c b/ipc/compat.c
index f486b0096a67..1048522479e5 100644
--- a/ipc/compat.c
+++ b/ipc/compat.c
@@ -752,14 +752,8 @@ long compat_sys_shmctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr)
 long compat_sys_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf __user *tsems,
 		unsigned nsops, const struct compat_timespec __user *timeout)
 {
-	struct timespec __user *ts64 = NULL;
-	if (timeout) {
-		struct timespec ts;
-		ts64 = compat_alloc_user_space(sizeof(*ts64));
-		if (get_compat_timespec(&ts, timeout))
-			return -EFAULT;
-		if (copy_to_user(ts64, &ts, sizeof(ts)))
-			return -EFAULT;
-	}
+	struct timespec __user *ts64;
+	if (compat_convert_timespec(&ts64, timeout))
+		return -EFAULT;
 	return sys_semtimedop(semid, tsems, nsops, ts64);
 }