linux/fs
Davide Libenzi 098284020c make timerfd return a u64 and fix the __put_user
Davi fixed a missing cast in the __put_user(), that was making timerfd
return a single byte instead of the full value.

Talking with Michael about the timerfd man page, we think it'd be better to
use a u64 for the returned value, to align it with the eventfd
implementation.

This is an ABI change.  The timerfd code is new in 2.6.22 and if we merge this
into 2.6.23 then we should also merge it into 2.6.22.x.  That will leave a few
early 2.6.22 kernels out in the wild which might misbehave when a future
timerfd-enabled glibc is run on them.

mtk says: The difference would be that read() will only return 4 bytes, while
the application will expect 8.  If the application is checking the size of
returned value, as it should, then it will be able to detect the problem (it
could even be sophisticated enough to know that if this is a 4-byte return,
then it is running on an old 2.6.22 kernel).  If the application is not
checking the return from read(), then its 8-byte buffer will not be filled --
the contents of the last 4 bytes will be undefined, so the u64 value as a
whole will be junk.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Davi Arnaut <davi@haxent.com.br>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
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9p 9p: fix debug compilation error 2007-07-16 16:03:25 -05:00
adfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
affs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
afs AFS: Use patched rxrpc_kernel_send_data() correctly 2007-07-20 08:54:14 -07:00
autofs Replace pid_t in autofs with struct pid reference 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
autofs4 Fix some coding-style errors in autofs 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
befs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
bfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
cifs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
coda coda: remove CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcalls 2007-07-21 17:49:14 -07:00
configfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
cramfs mm: make read_cache_page synchronous 2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
debugfs debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint 2007-07-18 15:49:48 -07:00
devpts devpts: add fsnotify create event 2007-05-08 11:14:59 -07:00
dlm mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
ecryptfs fix some conversion overflows 2007-07-20 08:44:19 -07:00
efs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
exportfs knfsd: exportfs: split out reconnecting a dentry from find_exported_dentry 2007-07-17 10:23:06 -07:00
ext2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
ext3 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
ext4 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
fat mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
freevxfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
fuse mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
gfs2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
hfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
hfsplus mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
hostfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
hpfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
hppfs [PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const 2007-02-12 09:48:47 -08:00
hugetlbfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
isofs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
jbd mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
jbd2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
jffs2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
jfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
lockd lockd and nfsd endianness annotation fixes 2007-07-26 11:11:56 -07:00
minix mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
msdos [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
ncpfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
nfs fix broken handling of port=... in NFS option parsing 2007-07-22 11:15:18 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd lockd and nfsd endianness annotation fixes 2007-07-26 11:11:56 -07:00
nls NLS: Remove obsolete Makefile entries 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
ntfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: bad kunmap_atomic() 2007-07-24 16:02:55 -07:00
openpromfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
partitions some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide) 2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
proc x86_64: Avoid too many remote cpu references due to /proc/stat 2007-07-21 18:37:09 -07:00
qnx4 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
ramfs Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
reiserfs more reiserfs endianness annotations 2007-07-26 11:11:58 -07:00
romfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
smbfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
sysfs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
sysv mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
udf UDF: coding style conversion - lindent fixups 2007-07-21 17:49:14 -07:00
ufs mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
vfat [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
xfs xfs ioctl __user annotations 2007-07-26 11:11:57 -07:00
aio.c signal/timer/event: KAIO eventfd support example 2007-05-11 08:29:37 -07:00
anon_inodes.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm 2007-07-17 11:50:26 -07:00
attr.c Introduce is_owner_or_cap() to wrap CAP_FOWNER use with fsuid check 2007-07-17 12:00:03 -07:00
bad_inode.c sendfile: remove bad_sendfile() from bad_file_ops 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c coredump masking: ELF-FDPIC: enable core dump filtering 2007-07-19 10:04:47 -07:00
binfmt_elf.c revert "PIE randomization" 2007-07-21 17:49:14 -07:00
binfmt_em86.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
binfmt_flat.c nommu: report correct errno in message 2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
binfmt_misc.c mm: variable length argument support 2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
binfmt_script.c mm: variable length argument support 2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
binfmt_som.c
bio.c [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef 2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
block_dev.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
buffer.c fix some conversion overflows 2007-07-20 08:44:19 -07:00
char_dev.c unregister_chrdev() return void 2007-07-19 10:04:43 -07:00
compat_ioctl.c compat32: ignore the LOOP_CLR_FD ioctl 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
compat.c mm: variable length argument support 2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
dcache.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
dcookies.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
direct-io.c dio: remove bogus refcounting BUG_ON 2007-07-03 18:23:23 -07:00
dnotify.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
dquot.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
drop_caches.c invalidate_mapping_pages(): add cond_resched 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
eventfd.c eventfd use waitqueue lock ... 2007-05-18 13:09:34 -07:00
eventpoll.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
exec.c coredump masking: reimplementation of dumpable using two flags 2007-07-19 10:04:46 -07:00
fcntl.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
fifo.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
file_table.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
file.c
filesystems.c add filesystem subtype support 2007-05-08 11:15:01 -07:00
fs-writeback.c
generic_acl.c Introduce is_owner_or_cap() to wrap CAP_FOWNER use with fsuid check 2007-07-17 12:00:03 -07:00
inode.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
inotify_user.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
inotify.c Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro 2007-05-08 11:15:11 -07:00
internal.h cleanup compat ioctl handling 2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
ioctl.c drop obsolete sys_ioctl export 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
ioprio.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
Kconfig NFSD/SUNRPC: Fix the automatic selection of RPCSEC_GSS 2007-07-19 15:09:02 -04:00
Kconfig.binfmt fs: Kill sh dependency for binfmt_flat. 2007-05-21 14:34:00 +09:00
libfs.c fs/libfs.c: >80 columns line break fix 2007-05-09 06:44:57 +02:00
locks.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Makefile signal/timer/event: eventfd core 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
mbcache.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
mpage.c consolidate generic_writepages and mpage_writepages 2007-05-11 08:29:35 -07:00
namei.c fs: remove path_walk export 2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
namespace.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
nfsctl.c nfsctl: use vfs_path_lookup 2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
no-block.c
open.c fallocate syscall interface deficiency 2007-07-24 12:24:58 -07:00
pipe.c pipe: add documentation and comments 2007-07-10 08:04:16 +02:00
pnode.c Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro 2007-05-08 11:15:11 -07:00
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
quota_v1.c
quota_v2.c
quota.c diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
read_write.c Remove remnants of sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
read_write.h
readdir.c ROUND_UP macro cleanup in fs/(select|compat|readdir).c 2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
select.c Style fix in fs/select.c 2007-05-09 07:10:02 +02:00
seq_file.c seq_file: more atomicity in traverse() 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
signalfd.c tiny signalfd cleanup 2007-07-26 11:33:06 -07:00
splice.c splice: fix bad unlock_page() in error case 2007-07-20 09:07:01 -07:00
stack.c [PATCH] fs/stack.c: Copy i_nlink after all other attributes are copied 2007-02-19 14:21:50 -08:00
stat.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
super.c hugetlbfs: handle empty options string 2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
sync.c Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM 2007-06-28 11:38:30 -07:00
timerfd.c make timerfd return a u64 and fix the __put_user 2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
utimes.c Introduce is_owner_or_cap() to wrap CAP_FOWNER use with fsuid check 2007-07-17 12:00:03 -07:00
xattr_acl.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
xattr.c Introduce is_owner_or_cap() to wrap CAP_FOWNER use with fsuid check 2007-07-17 12:00:03 -07:00