y2038: asm-generic: Extend sysvipc data structures
Most architectures now use the asm-generic copy of the sysvipc data structures (msqid64_ds, semid64_ds, shmid64_ds), which use 32-bit __kernel_time_t on 32-bit architectures but have padding behind them to allow extending the type to 64-bit. Unfortunately, that fails on all big-endian architectures, which have the padding on the wrong side. As so many of them get it wrong, we decided to not bother even trying to fix it up when we introduced the asm-generic copy. Instead we always use the padding word now to provide the upper 32 bits of the seconds value, regardless of the endianess. A libc implementation on a typical big-endian system can deal with this by providing its own copy of the structure definition to user space, and swapping the two 32-bit words before returning from the semctl/shmctl/msgctl system calls. Note that msqid64_ds and shmid64_ds were broken on x32 since commit f4b4aae1 ("x86/headers/uapi: Fix __BITS_PER_LONG value for x32 builds"). I have sent a separate fix for that, but as we no longer have to worry about x32 here, I no longer worry about x32 here and use 'unsigned long' instead of __kernel_ulong_t. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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