linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] btrfs: use 64-bit timestamps for struct btrfs_dev_replace

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Date:   Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:36:55 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] btrfs: use 64-bit timestamps for struct
 btrfs_dev_replace_item

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:34:33PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The structure already has 64-bit fields for the timestamps, but
> calling get_seconds() may truncate and risk overflow on 32-bit
> architectures.
> 
> This changes the dev-replace code to use ktime_get_real_seconds()
> instead, which always returns 64-bit timestamps.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks but there's a patch already fixng that, sent a few days ago

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10473195/

and added to patch queue for the next dev cycle as it does not appear to
urgent for 4.18.