linux-kernel - [PATCH] crash: print timestamp using time64

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:03:01 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...hat.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] crash: print timestamp using time64_t

The get_seconds() call returns a 32-bit timestamp on some architectures,
and will overflow in the future. The newer ktime_get_real_seconds()
always returns a 64-bit timestamp that does not suffer from this problem.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 kernel/crash_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index b66aced5e8c2..9612b2571bd6 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
 	if (vmcoreinfo_data_safecopy)
 		vmcoreinfo_data = vmcoreinfo_data_safecopy;
 
-	vmcoreinfo_append_str("CRASHTIME=%ld\n", get_seconds());
+	vmcoreinfo_append_str("CRASHTIME=%lld\n", ktime_get_real_seconds());
 	update_vmcoreinfo_note();
 }
 
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2.9.0