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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/9] y2038: asm-generic: extend sysvipc data structures
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Hi Arnd,

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/sembuf.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/sembuf.h
> @@ -12,23 +12,29 @@
> * everyone just ended up making identical copies without specific
> * optimizations, so we may just as well all use the same one.
> *
> - * 64 bit architectures typically define a 64 bit __kernel_time_t,
> + * 64 bit architectures use a 64-bit __kernel_time_t here, while
> + * 32 bit architectures have a pair of unsigned long values.
> * so they do not need the first two padding words.
> - * On big-endian systems, the padding is in the wrong place.
> *
> - * Pad space is left for:
> - * - 64-bit time_t to solve y2038 problem
> - * - 2 miscellaneous 32-bit values
> + * On big-endian systems, the padding is in the wrong place for
> + * historic reasons, so user space has to reconstruct a time_t
> + * value using
> + *
> + * user_semid_ds.sem_otime = kernel_semid64_ds.sem_otime +
> + * (long long)(kernel_semid64_ds.sem_otime_high << 32)

The cast to "long long" should be inside the parentheses, to promote the
(32-bit) sem_otime_high to a first 64-bit integer first.
Else it will be shifted into oblivion (oh no, C undefined behavior).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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