netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: ipv4: Use y2038 safe functions and data structures

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:57:49 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: ipv4: Use y2038 safe functions and data structures

On Wednesday 24 February 2016 23:07:09 Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> ICMP timestamp messages and IP source route options require
> timestamps to be in milliseconds modulo 24 hours from
> midnight UT format.
> 
> Timestamps are calculated from realtime by making a call
> to getnstimeofday() which uses struct timespec.
> timespec is not y2038 safe.
> Replace the above calls with y2038 safe current_nw_time() to
> obtain network timestamps which uses y2038 safe struct timespec64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
> 

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