times(2) sys call bug?

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:31 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:52 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Joakim Tjernlund writes:
> > 
> > > This little hack changes the kernel sys call handling in an crude
> > > way and then it works. Apperently the kernel thinks is an error if the
> > > syscall returns a value between -_LAST_ERRNO and -1.
> > 
> > Try this patch and let me if it fixes it.  If it does I'll push it
> > upstream.
> > 
> > Paul.
> [SNIP]
> > +	force_successful_syscall_return();
> >  	return (long) jiffies_64_to_clock_t(get_jiffies_64());
> 
> Why is 64 bits ops used here when you only use 32 bits? 
> 
> BTW, I think time(2) needs this:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
[SNIP]

Oh, and compat needs fixing too. 

For both my patches:
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>

BTW, why is sys_time() impl. differently in compat:
  do_gettimeofday(&tv);
vs.
  get_seconds();

same for sys_times(): 
  compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies);
vs.
  jiffies_64_to_clock_t(get_jiffies_64());


diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index 32c254a..c6346ec 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/timex.h>
 #include <linux/migrate.h>
 #include <linux/posix-timers.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -196,6 +197,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_times(struct compat_tms __user *tbuf)
 		if (copy_to_user(tbuf, &tmp, sizeof(tmp)))
 			return -EFAULT;
 	}
+	force_successful_syscall_return();
 	return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies);
 }
 
@@ -850,8 +852,9 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_time(compat_time_t __user * tloc)
 
 	if (tloc) {
 		if (put_user(i,tloc))
-			i = -EFAULT;
+			return -EFAULT;
 	}
+	force_successful_syscall_return();
 	return i;
 }