APPLIED: [NOBLE][PATCH 0/3] y2038: Initial safe COMPAT_32BIT_TIME fixes

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Applied to unstable

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 00:16, Dimitri John Ledkov
<dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Start turning off COMPAT and COMPAT_32BIT_TIME where safe to do so.
>
> ppc64le port is 64-bit only without any 32-bit support in
> little-endian mode, and no hardware exists that can operate in
> mix-mode to simultaniously run 32bit big-endian & 64bit little-endian
> mode binaries or VMs.
>
> riscv64 has COMPAT_32BIT_TIME turned on as if by accident, as riscv32
> port does not exist. And even if riscv32 is bootstrapped it is defined
> as using 64-bit time_t, thus this is also an imposible configuration.
>
> arm64 generic-64k kernel flavour typically runs on hardware that has
> no support to execute aarch32 binaries, thus is also safe to turn off
> COMPAT on.
>
> Fixes for amd64, arm64 (generic) and s390x need more analysis, and
> will be submitted later, if determined to be safe.
>
> Individual buglinks are used, such that users can discover these bugs
> for their given kernel and architecture and have a place to report
> targetted concerns for a specific kernels and arches.
>
> Dimitri John Ledkov (3):
>   UBUNTU: [Config] y2038: Disable COMPAT and COMPAT_32BIT_TIME on
>     ppc64le
>   UBUNTU: [Config] y2038: Disable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME on riscv64
>   UBUNTU: [Config] y2038: Turn off COMPAT and COMPAT_32BIT_TIME on arm64
>     64k
>
>  debian.master/config/annotations | 54 ++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>


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