From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162071AbbKEQZt (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:25:49 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:51213 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161598AbbKEQZs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:25:48 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Tina Ruchandani Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, y2038@lists.linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS: Correctly use 64-bit time for UUID Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:25:16 +0100 Message-ID: <5209604.j5CNYtQLTz@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20151030085101.GA3306@tina-laptop> References: <20151030085101.GA3306@tina-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:VBDeNAE7MilCPA76g9xkVaeMA3CoSMJt0D94TJU7PTPOizyRQ+w 2otsCvV57T75jdExms/G6RdX15JvjR3Snm7sXShymNGtr2JISj0WRDfSrRiWhmwBZzlolcE o3M9knXyXboOLQWn5PDBPw+w+NcyWnH3HS3AkH74V3NRT8nwAX1fl1F/KhuOmp54qFmu4dw KTcuJvGw7UADutg7X1GyQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:t0lYSXCCgjA=:5O6EQNOjceXgKrMZNQ5j9Q llgQ0WD0r45St+FLKfXJ/HuucUH4J1xi6SZZzuMSef+isrM8Kc9r6X6bgoM2LXwujKly8JFOO m549WzXF7nCTW5Y+0wA2QUNgxQ8zrFMIw9Cj5Cte2gxVvsQIU5+qvG9whk7n0ZjybwUP1a3Rh 4w4oyOaWDBtAEBGElqISIjWFr7P1u9/T3pps9zOzew+jQ1qN+60WgDA45WAIr+Nc6eGnvZr9e BGNfXPTb7oeJ78IoJxlxydxo0OhWRgbiVMtC5W4rvbV4EIUsptf/2wDbs2HugKXSbejy+KbU5 M6d6rP92vxgM7N2ex+3Z1BmN9WYsrKJMD4Cot4Vygdkwwb6E3ldHAoNTuewSScGhWK6Vi3PL8 utcNzkMJPph4mOqWQ5ZfPBnv0m0tNWXnPI+4iPOWon0UuMo4n1U+8akMULNINWgnKZH654J4Q gBqOrBOMEfKz55AbNjgJFADRbCs6qNzI7PhpKmG0OOYCOi21oLkHdaG5E1Ckmir3RkiztdjCS n8i+l3AL8LnIadHGtr9nUhoE2IRX5amiyOi27ZvsS3euY2QIkQlKcw9pnXR82YxGaNCmP9lC4 I7Gl3stRAHBM/kYIj1Ewc3JqIv0SRRPqcdfK8jxU8VpG6Nom1qYfNA3lhdOnKBlIwohVCrbQc agKtGVnsVDHbi6sVz0WgjA0p9+JXzOjZSL+BwXSQFG68b9WIP+QSiv+eBr4pZVpsazCXNV7sf axOigfck5i+d8ML2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 30 October 2015 01:51:01 Tina Ruchandani 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 > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann David, I'm applying this into my y2038 tree so I don't forget about it, but I'd prefer if you can pick it up for AFS in 4.5. Arnd