[PATCH 12/23] y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old_timeval

Christian Brauner christian.brauner at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 11 23:44:26 AEDT 2019


On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:12:11PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> All of the remaining syscalls that pass a timeval (gettimeofday, utime,
> futimesat) can trivially be changed to pass a __kernel_old_timeval
> instead, which has a compatible layout, but avoids ambiguity with
> the timeval type in user space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Seems reasonable.
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at ubuntu.com>


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