Re: [PATCH v10] y2038: Provide conversion helpers for struct __timespec64

[Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx dot de>]

Hi Florian,

> * Dmitry V. Levin:
> 
> > Unfortunately, this didn't work out as intended because Linux
> > kernel prior to commit 7b8474466ed97be458c825f34a85f2c2b84c3f95
> > (including released version v5.4) did not zero the upper 32-bits of
> > tv_nsec on 32-bit architectures, which means that we have to do it
> > in valid_timeval_to_timespec64 and valid_timespec_to_timespec64
> > instead.  
> 
> Can't we treat this as a critical kernel bug that needs fixing before
> the kernels become usable?
> 
> I'm concern that this will make initializers for struct timespec64
> invalid.  glibc can't intercept everything that goes into the kernel.
> 

There was a discussion regarding explicit clearing of data passed /
read from the kernel during development of this patch.

The agreement was that we rely on the kernel in this matter and no
explicit clearing is necessary in glibc.

> Thanks,
> Florian
> 




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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