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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, DengChao <chao.deng@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:45:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4312946.SmG7PJzsvD@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447335641-14768-1-git-send-email-chao.deng@linaro.org>

On Thursday 12 November 2015 21:40:41 DengChao wrote:
> The affs code uses "time_t" and "get_seconds()". This will cause
> problems on 32-bit architectures in 2038 when time_t overflows.
> This patch replaces them with "time64_t" and
> "ktime_get_real_seconds()". This patch introduces expensive 64-bit
> divsion in "secs_to_datestamp()", considering this function is not
> called so often, the cost should be acceptable.  
> 
> Signed-off-by: DengChao <chao.deng@linaro.org>
> 

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Is anyone picking up patches for random unmaintained file systems,
or should we put it into the y2038 tree?

	Arnd
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-12 13:40 [PATCH] fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t DengChao
2015-11-12 13:45 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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2015-12-13  9:48 DengChao

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