From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@odin.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [RESEND PATCH v3] scsi: stex: Remove use of struct timeval
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5227791.rORtZBSFWh@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151030083040.GA31741@tina-laptop>
On Friday 30 October 2015 01:30:40 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> Function stex_gettime uses 'struct timeval' whose tv_sec value
> will overflow on 32-bit systems in year 2038 and beyond. This patch
> replaces the use of struct timeval and do_gettimeofday with
> ktime_get_real_seconds, which returns a 64-bit seconds value.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
>
For reference
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
I'm putting this into my y2038 tree so I don't forget it, but I'd hope
that James can apply it into scsi and I'll drop it again.
Arnd
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-05 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-30 8:30 [RESEND PATCH v3] scsi: stex: Remove use of struct timeval Tina Ruchandani
2015-10-30 8:30 ` Tina Ruchandani
2015-10-30 8:50 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-10-30 8:50 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-10-30 8:54 ` Tina Ruchandani
2015-10-30 23:37 ` [Y2038] " Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-30 11:58 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-10-30 11:58 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-10-30 12:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-02 7:49 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-11-05 16:23 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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