linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [v2] tomoyo: fix timestamping for y2038

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Date:   Sat, 21 Oct 2017 06:22:30 +0400 (+04)
From:   James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:     Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@...data.co.jp>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] tomoyo: fix timestamping for y2038

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Tomoyo uses an open-coded version of time_to_tm() to create a timestamp
> from the current time as read by get_seconds(). This will overflow and
> give wrong results on 32-bit systems in 2038.
> 
> To correct this, this changes the code to use ktime_get_real_seconds()
> and the generic time64_to_tm() function that are both y2038-safe.
> Using the library function avoids adding an expensive 64-bit division
> in this code and can benefit from any optimizations we do in common
> code.
> 
> Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
> v2: fix year calculation

Applied to:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next-general

-- 
James Morris
<james.l.morris@...cle.com>