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Commit 3f3a4b3f authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann
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y2038: mips: Extend sysvipc data structures



MIPS is the weirdest case for sysvipc, because each of the
three data structures is done differently:

* msqid64_ds has padding in the right place so we could in theory
  extend this one to just have 64-bit values instead of time_t.
  As this does not work for most of the other combinations,
  we just handle it in the common manner though.

* semid64_ds has no padding for 64-bit time_t, but has two reserved
  'long' fields, which are sufficient to extend the sem_otime
  and sem_ctime fields to 64 bit. In order to do this, the libc
  implementation will have to copy the data into another structure
  that has the fields in a different order. MIPS is the only
  architecture with this problem, so this is best done in MIPS
  specific libc code.

* shmid64_ds is slightly worse than that, because it has three
  time_t fields but only two unused 32-bit words. As a workaround,
  we extend each field only by 16 bits, ending up with 48-bit
  timestamps that user space again has to work around by itself.

The compat versions of the data structures are changed in the
same way.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
parent 83335eb4
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