[PATCH 06/14] vdso/gettimeofday: Return bool from clock_gettime() helpers

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 03:23:24PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

> Can you try the following?
> I missed this despite the double-checking after the last reported issue.

I needed to fix that up a bit, it was missing an update of the final ret
in the function and didn't apply directly to -next for some reason so I
had to manually apply but it seems to do the trick, thanks!

Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>

with this against -next:

diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index 97aa9059a5c97..487e3458e536e 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -365,18 +365,18 @@ __cvdso_clock_gettime32_data(const struct vdso_time_data *vd, clockid_t clock,
 			     struct old_timespec32 *res)
 {
 	struct __kernel_timespec ts;
-	int ret;
+	bool ok;
 
-	ret = __cvdso_clock_gettime_common(vd, clock, &ts);
+	ok = __cvdso_clock_gettime_common(vd, clock, &ts);
 
-	if (unlikely(ret))
+	if (unlikely(!ok))
 		return clock_gettime32_fallback(clock, res);
 
-	/* For ret == 0 */
+	/* For ok == true */
 	res->tv_sec = ts.tv_sec;
 	res->tv_nsec = ts.tv_nsec;
 
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static __maybe_unused int
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