From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ruchandani.tina@gmail.com
Cc: dccp@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, y2038@lists.linaro.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DCCP]: Use 64-bit timekeeping
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:01:38 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151101.170138.358342779450639583.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151030082456.GA31370@tina-laptop>
From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:24:56 -0700
> This patch changes the use of struct timespec in
> dccp_probe to use struct timespec64 instead. timespec uses a 32-bit
> seconds field which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. timespec64
> uses a 64-bit seconds field. Note that the correctness of the code isn't
> changed, since the original code only uses the timestamps to compute a
> small elapsed interval. This patch is part of a larger attempt to remove
> instances of 32-bit timekeeping structures (timespec, timeval, time_t)
> from the kernel so it is easier to identify where the real 2038 issues
> are.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks.
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2015-10-30 8:24 [PATCH] [DCCP]: Use 64-bit timekeeping Tina Ruchandani
2015-11-01 22:01 ` David Miller [this message]
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