From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH RESEND] AFS: Correctly use 64-bit time for UUID
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:12:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2042134.x66CzoYZDK@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16523194.QYgGaJTPRn@wuerfel>
On Friday 22 January 2016 15:32:01 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> UUID calculation uses 'struct timespec' whose seconds will overflow
> in year 2038 and beyond for 32-bit systems. This patch removes the
> dependency on 'struct timespec' by using ktime_get_real().
> While the patch does not fix a 'bug' as such, it is part of a larger
> effort to remove instances of 'struct timespec' and other data-structures
> suffering from y2038 problem from the kernel.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
I was missing
From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
If anyone is going to pick this up, let me know whether you will fix
it up yourself or if I should resend
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2016-01-22 14:32 [PATCH RESEND] AFS: Correctly use 64-bit time for UUID Arnd Bergmann
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