Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:27:41 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firewire: nosy: Replace timeval with timespec64 |
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On Mar 21 Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Sunday 20 March 2016 22:59:11 Tina Ruchandani wrote: >>>> 'struct timeval' uses a 32 bit field for its 'seconds' value which >>>> will overflow in year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the use >>>> of timeval in nosy.c with timespec64 which doesn't suffer from y2038 >>>> issue. The code is correct as is - since it is only using the >>>> microseconds portion of timeval. However, this patch does the >>>> replacement as part of a larger effort to remove all instances of >>>> 'struct timeval' from the kernel (that would help identify cases >>>> where the code is actually broken). >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> [...] > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Committed to linux1394.git. I will try to get this pulled upstream in the next few days. -- Stefan Richter -======----- --== =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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