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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] [SCSI] mvumi: 64bit value for seconds_since1970
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:47:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1r3jwt2df.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151030091110.GA3880@tina-laptop> (Tina Ruchandani's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2015 02:11:10 -0700")

>>>>> "Tina" == Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> writes:

Tina> struct mvumi_hs_page2 stores a "seconds_since1970" field which is
Tina> of type u64. It is however, written to, using 'struct timeval'
Tina> which has a 32-bit seconds field and whose value will overflow in
Tina> year 2038.  This patch uses ktime_get_real_seconds() instead since
Tina> it provides a 64-bit seconds value, which is 2038 safe.

Under normal circumstances I would like a driver owner signoff but it
doesn't look like mvumi gets much attention. Applied.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-30  9:11 [RESEND PATCH] [SCSI] mvumi: 64bit value for seconds_since1970 Tina Ruchandani
2015-10-30  9:35 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-11-05 16:31 ` [Y2038] " Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-12  1:47 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]

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