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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: ipv4: Use y2038 safe functions and data structures
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:57:49 +0100
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	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 24 February 2016 23:07:09 Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> ICMP timestamp messages and IP source route options require
> timestamps to be in milliseconds modulo 24 hours from
> midnight UT format.
> 
> Timestamps are calculated from realtime by making a call
> to getnstimeofday() which uses struct timespec.
> timespec is not y2038 safe.
> Replace the above calls with y2038 safe current_nw_time() to
> obtain network timestamps which uses y2038 safe struct timespec64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>