mips: Fix gettimeofday() in the vdso library
authorVincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 14:36:58 +0000 (14:36 +0000)
committerPaul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Mon, 2 Dec 2019 18:50:37 +0000 (10:50 -0800)
commit7d2aa4bb90f5f6f1b8de8848c26042403f2d7bf9
tree27d4180d0551ee83d6689a95a9f10e789365ac2c
parent87f67cc4c7b81273fd1d9f775192eeb3124562f9
mips: Fix gettimeofday() in the vdso library

The libc provides a discovery mechanism for vDSO library and its
symbols. When a symbol is not exposed by the vDSOs the libc falls back
on the system calls.

With the introduction of the unified vDSO library on mips this behavior
is not honored anymore by the kernel in the case of gettimeofday().

The issue has been noticed and reported due to a dhclient failure on the
CI20 board:

root@letux:~# dhclient
../../../../lib/isc/unix/time.c:200: Operation not permitted
root@letux:~#

Restore the original behavior fixing gettimeofday() in the vDSO library.

Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Tested-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> # CI20 with JZ4780
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: mips-creator-ci20-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: letux-kernel@openphoenux.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c