linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Fix extended timestamp encoding and decoding

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Message-ID: <5018017.G1d6XcMJ5z@wuerfel>
Date:	Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:53:01 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, kalpak@...sterfs.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Fix extended timestamp encoding and decoding

On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:49:16 David Howells wrote:
> Since the epoch is presumably unsigned, this has the slightly strange
> effect of, for epochs > 0, putting the 0x80000000-0xffffffff range before
> the 0x00000000-0x7fffffff range.
>
> This affects all kernels from v2.6.23-rc1 onwards.

...

> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

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

Maybe
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v2.6.23+
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