From: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson....@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:21:54 -0400
> For the x32 ABI, struct timeval has two 64-bit fields. However > the kernel currently interprets the user-space values used for > the SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options as having a pair > of 32-bit fields. > > When the seconds portion of the requested timeout is less than 2**32, > the seconds portion of the effective timeout is correct but the > microseconds portion is zero. When the seconds portion of the > requested timeout is zero and the microseconds portion is non-zero, > the kernel interprets the timeout as zero (never timeout). > > Fix by using 64-bit time for SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO as required > for the ABI. > > The code included below demonstrates the problem. ... > Fixes: 515c7af85ed9 ("x32: Use compat shims for {g,s}etsockopt") > Reported-by: Gopal RajagopalSai <gopals...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson....@gmail.com> Really nice commit message and test case. Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.