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.
see
linux commit 7615d9e1780e26e0178c93c55b73309a5dc093d7
arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
linux commit 32fcb426ec001cb6d5a4a195091a8486ea77e2df
pid: add pidfd_open()
new mount api syscalls were added, same numers on all targets, see
linux commit a07b20004793d8926f78d63eb5980559f7813404
vfs: syscall: Add open_tree(2) to reference or clone a mount
linux commit 2db154b3ea8e14b04fee23e3fdfd5e9d17fbc6ae
vfs: syscall: Add move_mount(2) to move mounts around
linux commit 24dcb3d90a1f67fe08c68a004af37df059d74005
vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation
linux commit ecdab150fddb42fe6a739335257949220033b782
vfs: syscall: Add fsconfig() for configuring and managing a context
linux commit 93766fbd2696c2c4453dd8e1070977e9cd4e6b6d
vfs: syscall: Add fsmount() to create a mount for a superblock
linux commit cf3cba4a429be43e5527a3f78859b1bfd9ebc5fb
vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock for reconfiguration
linux commit 9c8ad7a2ff0bfe58f019ec0abc1fb965114dde7d
uapi, x86: Fix the syscall numbering of the mount API syscalls [ver #2]
linux commit d8076bdb56af5e5918376cd1573a6b0007fc1a89
uapi: Wire up the mount API syscalls on non-x86 arches [ver #2]
syscall numbers are now synced up across targets (starting from 403 the
numbers are the same on all targets other than an arch specific offset)
IPC syscalls sem*, shm*, msg* got added where they were missing (except
for semop: only semtimedop got added), the new semctl, shmctl, msgctl
imply IPC_64, see
linux commit 0d6040d4681735dfc47565de288525de405a5c99
arch: add split IPC system calls where needed
new 64bit time_t syscall variants got added on 32bit targets, see
linux commit 48166e6ea47d23984f0b481ca199250e1ce0730a
y2038: add 64-bit time_t syscalls to all 32-bit architectures
new async io syscalls got added, see
linux commit 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e
Add io_uring IO interface
linux commit edafccee56ff31678a091ddb7219aba9b28bc3cb
io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers
a new syscall got added that uses the fd of /proc/<pid> as a stable
handle for processes: allows sending signals without pid reuse issues,
intended to eventually replace rt_sigqueueinfo, kill, tgkill and
rt_tgsigqueueinfo, see
linux commit 3eb39f47934f9d5a3027fe00d906a45fe3a15fad
signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall
on some targets (arm, m68k, s390x, sh) some previously missing syscall
numbers got added as well.
Rich Felker
Szabolcs Nagy
Bobby Bingham