linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] [RESEND, net-next] ipv6: xfrm: use 64-bit timestamps

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:11:34 +0200
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        "Hideaki YOSHIFUJI" <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [RESEND, net-next] ipv6: xfrm: use 64-bit timestamps

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:19:14PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> get_seconds() is deprecated because it can overflow on 32-bit
> architectures.  For the xfrm_state->lastused member, we treat the data
> as a 64-bit number already, so we just need to use the right accessor
> that works on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Also applied to ipsec-next, thanks!