bfa_aen_entry_s is passed through a netlink socket that can be read by either 32-bit or 64-bit processes, but the data format is different between the two on current implementations.
Originally, this was using a 'struct timeval', which also suffers from getting redefined with a new libc implementation.
With this patch, the layout gets fixed to having two 64-bit members for the time, making it the same on 32-bit kernels and 64-bit kernels running either compat or native user space including x32.
Provided that the new header file gets used to recompile any 32-bit application binaries, this will fix running those on a 64-bit kernel (with or without this patch) e.g. in a container environment, and it will make binaries work that will be built against a future 32-bit glibc that uses a 64-bit time_t, and avoid the y2038 overflow there.
However, this also breaks compatibility with any existing 32-bit binary running on a native 32-bit kernel, those must be recompiled against the new header, which in turn makes them incompatible with older kernels unless the same change gets applied there.
Obviously this patch should only be applied when the benefits outweigh the possible breakage. I'm posting it under the assumption that there are no open-source tools using the netlink interface, and that users of the binaries provided by qlogic for SLES10/11 and RHEL5/6 are not actually being used on new future systems with 32-bit x86 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- --- drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h index df1e874015c4..3d0c96a5c873 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h @@ -1455,8 +1455,8 @@ struct bfa_aen_entry_s { enum bfa_aen_category aen_category; u32 aen_type; union bfa_aen_data_u aen_data; - unsigned long aen_tv_sec; - unsigned long aen_tv_usec; + u64 aen_tv_sec; + u64 aen_tv_usec; u32 seq_num; u32 bfad_num; };