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From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Valentin Vidic <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] staging: exfat: use prandom_u32() for i_generation
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:53:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33441.1573250029@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108213257.3097633-2-arnd@arndb.de>

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On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:32:39 +0100, Arnd Bergmann said:
> Similar to commit 46c9a946d766 ("shmem: use monotonic time for i_generation")
> we should not use the deprecated get_seconds() interface for i_generation.
>
> prandom_u32() is the replacement used in other file systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

exfat does some weird stuff with i_generation. but (a) it doesn't require
monotonic increasing values and (b) this change is orthogonal to the weirdness
and won't break anything.

For the exfat part:

Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-08 21:54 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 [this message]
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
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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