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

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c b/arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c
index 6ebdc37c89fc..6b83b6376a4b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c
+++ b/arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c
@@ -17,12 +17,22 @@ int __vdso_clock_gettime(clockid_t clock,
 	return __cvdso_clock_gettime32(clock, ts);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL
+
+/*
+ * This is behind the ifdef so that we don't provide the symbol when there's no
+ * possibility of there being a usable clocksource, because there's nothing we
+ * can do without it. When libc fails the symbol lookup it should fall back on
+ * the standard syscall path.
+ */
 int __vdso_gettimeofday(struct __kernel_old_timeval *tv,
 			struct timezone *tz)
 {
 	return __cvdso_gettimeofday(tv, tz);
 }
 
+#endif /* CONFIG_MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL */
+
 int __vdso_clock_getres(clockid_t clock_id,
 			struct old_timespec32 *res)
 {
@@ -43,12 +53,22 @@ int __vdso_clock_gettime(clockid_t clock,
 	return __cvdso_clock_gettime(clock, ts);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL
+
+/*
+ * This is behind the ifdef so that we don't provide the symbol when there's no
+ * possibility of there being a usable clocksource, because there's nothing we
+ * can do without it. When libc fails the symbol lookup it should fall back on
+ * the standard syscall path.
+ */
 int __vdso_gettimeofday(struct __kernel_old_timeval *tv,
 			struct timezone *tz)
 {
 	return __cvdso_gettimeofday(tv, tz);
 }
 
+#endif /* CONFIG_MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL */
+
 int __vdso_clock_getres(clockid_t clock_id,
 			struct __kernel_timespec *res)
 {