Merge tag 'y2038-drivers-for-v5.6-signed' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground

22b17db4 · Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> · 2020-01-29 14:55:47 -08:00

Pull y2038 updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Core, driver and file system changes

  These are updates to device drivers and file systems that for some
  reason or another were not included in the kernel in the previous
  y2038 series.

  I've gone through all users of time_t again to make sure the kernel is
  in a long-term maintainable state, replacing all remaining references
  to time_t with safe alternatives.

  Some related parts of the series were picked up into the nfsd, xfs,
  alsa and v4l2 trees. A final set of patches in linux-mm removes the
  now unused time_t/timeval/timespec types and helper functions after
  all five branches are merged for linux-5.6, ensuring that no new users
  get merged.

  As a result, linux-5.6, or my backport of the patches to 5.4 [1],
  should be the first release that can serve as a base for a 32-bit
  system designed to run beyond year 2038, with a few remaining caveats:

   - All user space must be compiled with a 64-bit time_t, which will be
     supported in the coming musl-1.2 and glibc-2.32 releases, along
     with installed kernel headers from linux-5.6 or higher.

   - Applications that use the system call interfaces directly need to
     be ported to use the time64 syscalls added in linux-5.1 in place of
     the existing system calls. This impacts most users of futex() and
     seccomp() as well as programming languages that have their own
     runtime environment not based on libc.

   - Applications that use a private copy of kernel uapi header files or
     their contents may need to update to the linux-5.6 version, in
     particular for sound/asound.h, xfs/xfs_fs.h, linux/input.h,
     linux/elfcore.h, linux/sockios.h, linux/timex.h and
     linux/can/bcm.h.

   - A few remaining interfaces cannot be changed to pass a 64-bit
     time_t in a compatible way, so they must be configured to use
     CLOCK_MONOTONIC times or (with a y2106 problem) unsigned 32-bit
     timestamps. Most importantly this impacts all users of 'struct
     input_event'.

   - All y2038 problems that are present on 64-bit machines also apply
     to 32-bit machines. In particular this affects file systems with
     on-disk timestamps using signed 32-bit seconds: ext4 with
     ext3-style small inodes, ext2, xfs (to be fixed soon) and ufs"

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git/log/?h=y2038-endgame

* tag 'y2038-drivers-for-v5.6-signed' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground: (21 commits)
  Revert "drm/etnaviv: reject timeouts with tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC"
  y2038: sh: remove timeval/timespec usage from headers
  y2038: sparc: remove use of struct timex
  y2038: rename itimerval to __kernel_old_itimerval
  y2038: remove obsolete jiffies conversion functions
  nfs: fscache: use timespec64 in inode auxdata
  nfs: fix timstamp debug prints
  nfs: use time64_t internally
  sunrpc: convert to time64_t for expiry
  drm/etnaviv: avoid deprecated timespec
  drm/etnaviv: reject timeouts with tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC
  drm/msm: avoid using 'timespec'
  hfs/hfsplus: use 64-bit inode timestamps
  hostfs: pass 64-bit timestamps to/from user space
  packet: clarify timestamp overflow
  tsacct: add 64-bit btime field
  acct: stop using get_seconds()
  um: ubd: use 64-bit time_t where possible
  xtensa: ISS: avoid struct timeval
  dlm: use SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW instead of SO_SNDTIMEO_OLD
  ...

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