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can: avoid using timeval for uapi
The can subsystem communicates with user space using a bcm_msg_head header, which contains two timestamps. This is problematic for multiple reasons: a) The structure layout is currently incompatible between 64-bit user space and 32-bit user space, and cannot work in compat mode (other than x32). b) The timeval structure layout will change in 32-bit user space when we fix the y2038 overflow problem by redefining time_t to 64-bit, making new 32-bit user space incompatible with the current kernel interface. Cars last a long time and often use old kernels, so the actual users of this code are the most likely ones to migrate to y2038 safe user space. This tries to work around part of the problem by changing the publicly visible user interface in the header, but not the binary interface. Fortunately, the values passed around in the structure are relative times and do not actually suffer from the y2038 overflow, so 32-bit is enough here. We replace the use of 'struct timeval' with a newly defined 'struct bcm_timeval' that uses the exact same binary layout as before and that still suffers from problem a) but not problem b). The downside of this approach is that any user space program that currently assigns a timeval structure to these members rather than writing the tv_sec/tv_usec portions individually will suffer a compile-time error when built with an updated kernel header. Fixing this error makes it work fine with old and new headers though. We could address problem a) by using '__u32' or 'int' members rather than 'long', but that would have a more significant downside in also breaking support for all existing 64-bit user binaries that might be using this interface, which is likely not acceptable. Signed-off-by:Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: