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From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@odin.com>,
	y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3] scsi: stex: Remove use of struct timeval
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:50:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446195000.16404.55.camel@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151030083040.GA31741@tina-laptop>

Hi,

On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 01:30 -0700, 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.

Thanks for the conversion. Can you please check if other (scsi) drivers
have the same y2038 issues? A quick "git grep do_gettimeofday
drivers/scsi/  | wc -l" reveals 30 occurrences (of cause not all are
problematic).


Other than that
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-30  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ 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  8:50 ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
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 12:45   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-02  7:49     ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-11-05 16:23 ` [Y2038] " Arnd Bergmann

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