linux-kernel - Re: [Y2038] [PATCH RESEND] AFS: Correctly use 64-bit time for UUID

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Message-ID: <2042134.x66CzoYZDK@wuerfel>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:12:10 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	y2038@...ts.linaro.org
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH RESEND] AFS: Correctly use 64-bit time for UUID

On Friday 22 January 2016 15:32:01 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> UUID calculation uses 'struct timespec' whose seconds will overflow
> in year 2038 and beyond for 32-bit systems. This patch removes the
> dependency on 'struct timespec' by using ktime_get_real().
> While the patch does not fix a 'bug' as such, it is part of a larger
> effort to remove instances of 'struct timespec' and other data-structures
> suffering from y2038 problem from the kernel.
> 
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 


I was missing

From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>

If anyone is going to pick this up, let me know whether you will fix
it up yourself or if I should resend