From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ander Juaristi <a@juaristi.eus>,
wenxu <wenxu@ucloud.cn>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] netfilter: nft_meta: use 64-bit time arithmetic
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 12:20:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191109112010.GC15063@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108213257.3097633-10-arnd@arndb.de>
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:32:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On 32-bit architectures, get_seconds() returns an unsigned 32-bit
> time value, which also matches the type used in the nft_meta
> code. This will not overflow in year 2038 as a time_t would, but
> it still suffers from the overflow problem later on in year 2106.
I wonder if the assumption that people will still use nft_meta 80 years
from now is an optimistic or pessimistic one. :)
> Change this instance to use the time64_t type consistently
> and avoid the deprecated get_seconds().
>
> The nft_meta_weekday() calculation potentially gets a little slower
> on 32-bit architectures, but now it has the same behavior as on
> 64-bit architectures and does not overflow.
>
> Fixes: 63d10e12b00d ("netfilter: nft_meta: support for time matching")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-09 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-08 21:32 [PATCH 00/16] drivers: y2038 updates Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 01/16] staging: exfat: use prandom_u32() for i_generation Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:53 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 02/16] fat: " Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 03/16] net: sock: use __kernel_old_timespec instead of timespec Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-09 19:09 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 04/16] dlm: use SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW instead of SO_SNDTIMEO_OLD Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-09 19:14 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 05/16] xtensa: ISS: avoid struct timeval Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:38 ` Max Filippov
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 06/16] um: ubd: use 64-bit time_t where possible Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 07/16] acct: stop using get_seconds() Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 08/16] tsacct: add 64-bit btime field Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 09/16] netfilter: nft_meta: use 64-bit time arithmetic Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-09 11:20 ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2019-11-15 22:44 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 10/16] packet: clarify timestamp overflow Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 11/16] quota: avoid time_t in v1_disk_dqblk definition Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 12/16] hostfs: pass 64-bit timestamps to/from user space Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-20 20:30 ` [Y2038] " Ben Hutchings
2019-11-20 20:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 13/16] hfs/hfsplus: use 64-bit inode timestamps Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-13 3:53 ` Ernesto A. Fernández
2019-11-13 5:59 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2019-11-13 8:06 ` [Y2038] " Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-13 17:03 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 14/16] drm/msm: avoid using 'timespec' Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-12 16:55 ` Jordan Crouse
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 15/16] drm/etnaviv: use ktime_t for timeouts Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 23:03 ` Lucas Stach
2019-11-09 12:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-11 9:55 ` Lucas Stach
2019-11-11 16:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-08 21:32 ` [PATCH 16/16] firewire: ohci: stop using get_seconds() for BUS_TIME Arnd Bergmann
2019-11-13 20:04 ` Stefan Richter
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