From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
y2038@lists.linaro.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix unused efi_get_time function
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:32:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160623133205.GH8415@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160617145152.3569706-1-arnd@arndb.de>
On Fri, 17 Jun, at 04:51:29PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Nothing calls the efi_get_time function on x86, but it does suffer
> from the 32-bit time_t overflow in 2038.
>
> To avoid that if anyone starts calling it, this changes the function
> to use timespec64 and mktime64 instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> The obvious alternative would be to remove the function, I'll send
> that patch as well, so you can pick one or the other.
>
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 6 +++---
> include/linux/efi.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Looks good, thanks Arnd!
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2016-06-17 14:51 [PATCH] x86: fix unused efi_get_time function Arnd Bergmann
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