From 5a105f19b5aae79dd302899e634b6b18b3dcd0d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:25:07 -0500 Subject: remove legacy clock_gettime and gettimeofday from public syscall.h some nontrivial number of applications have historically performed direct syscalls for these operations rather than using the public functions. such usage is invalid now that time_t is 64-bit and these syscalls no longer match the types they are used with, and it was already harmful before (by suppressing use of vdso). since syscall() has no type safety, incorrect usage of these syscalls can't be caught at compile-time. so, without manually inspecting or running additional tools to check sources, the risk of such errors slipping through is high. this patch renames the syscalls on 32-bit archs to clock_gettime32 and gettimeofday_time32, so that applications using the original names will fail to build without being fixed. note that there are a number of other syscalls that may also be unsafe to use directly after the time64 switchover, but (1) these are the main two that seem to be in widespread use, and (2) most of the others continue to have valid usage with a null timeval/timespec argument, as the argument is an optional timeout or similar. --- arch/mips/bits/syscall.h.in | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/mips') diff --git a/arch/mips/bits/syscall.h.in b/arch/mips/bits/syscall.h.in index 7f9afaab..e3f2de31 100644 --- a/arch/mips/bits/syscall.h.in +++ b/arch/mips/bits/syscall.h.in @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ #define __NR_setrlimit 4075 #define __NR_getrlimit 4076 #define __NR_getrusage 4077 -#define __NR_gettimeofday 4078 +#define __NR_gettimeofday_time32 4078 #define __NR_settimeofday 4079 #define __NR_getgroups 4080 #define __NR_setgroups 4081 @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ #define __NR_timer_getoverrun 4260 #define __NR_timer_delete 4261 #define __NR_clock_settime 4262 -#define __NR_clock_gettime 4263 +#define __NR_clock_gettime32 4263 #define __NR_clock_getres 4264 #define __NR_clock_nanosleep 4265 #define __NR_tgkill 4266 -- cgit v1.2.1