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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:38:11 -0700
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
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Atul Gupta <atul.gupta@...lsio.com>,
Michael Werner <werner@...lsio.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [net-next, v2] tcp: use monotonic timestamps for PAWS
On 06/19/2018 05:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Using get_seconds() for timestamps is deprecated since it can lead
> to overflows on 32-bit systems. While the interface generally doesn't
> overflow until year 2106, the specific implementation of the TCP PAWS
> algorithm breaks in 2038 when the intermediate signed 32-bit timestamps
> overflow.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
> v2: use time_before32()/time_after32() everywhere as suggested
> Eric Dumazet
Thanks a lot Arnd.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
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