The input events use struct timeval to store event time, unfortunately
this structure is not y2038 safe and is being replaced in kernel with
y2038 safe structures.
Because of ABI concerns we can not change the size or the layout of
structure input_event, so we opt to re-interpreting the 'seconds' part
of timestamp as an unsigned value, effectively doubling the range of
values, to year 2106.
Newer glibc that has support for 32 bit applications to use 64 bit
time_t supplies __USE_TIME_BITS64 define [1], that we can use to present
the userspace with updated input_event layout. The updated layout will
cause the compile time breakage, alerting applications and distributions
maintainers to the issue. Existing 32 binaries will continue working
without any changes until 2038.
Ultimately userspace applications should switch to using monotonic or
boot time clocks, as realtime clock is not very well suited for input
event timestamps as it can go backwards (see a80b83b7b8 "Input: evdev -
add CLOCK_BOOTTIME support" by by John Stultz). With monotonic clock the
practical range of reported times will always fit into the pair of 32
bit values, as we do not expect any system to stay up for a hundred
years without a single reboot.
[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Patchwork-Id: 10148083
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)
to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
INPUT_COMPAT_TEST became much simpler after commit f4056b5284
("input: redefine INPUT_COMPAT_TEST as in_compat_syscall()") so we can
cleanly eliminate it altogether.
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enable the input system to be used with a compat ABI with 64-bit time.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
These files are not modules but are exporting symbols and/or
making use of THIS_MODULE macro.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Currently, evdev has working 32bit compatibility and uinput does not. uinput
needs the input_event code that evdev uses, so let's refactor it so it can
be shared.
[dtor@mail.ru: add fix for force feedback compat issues]
Signed-off-by: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Deepa Dinamani