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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, Harsh Jain <harsh@chelsio.com>,
	Atul Gupta <atul.gupta@chelsio.com>,
	Michael Werner <werner@chelsio.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>,
	Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [net-next, v2] tcp: use monotonic timestamps for PAWS
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:38:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3552cdb-a22c-5577-42a0-0f695e42e784@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180619123724.2535981-1-arnd@arndb.de>



On 06/19/2018 05:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Using get_seconds() for timestamps is deprecated since it can lead
> to overflows on 32-bit systems. While the interface generally doesn't
> overflow until year 2106, the specific implementation of the TCP PAWS
> algorithm breaks in 2038 when the intermediate signed 32-bit timestamps
> overflow.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> v2: use time_before32()/time_after32() everywhere as suggested
>     Eric Dumazet


Thanks a lot Arnd.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2018-06-19 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-19 12:36 [PATCH] [net-next, v2] tcp: use monotonic timestamps for PAWS Arnd Bergmann
2018-06-19 23:38 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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