netdev - Re: [PATCH 09/16] netfilter: nft_meta: use 64-bit time arithmetic

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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 23:44:02 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     y2038@...ts.linaro.org, Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ander Juaristi <a@...risti.eus>,
        wenxu <wenxu@...oud.cn>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        coreteam@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] netfilter: nft_meta: use 64-bit time arithmetic

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:32:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On 32-bit architectures, get_seconds() returns an unsigned 32-bit
> time value, which also matches the type used in the nft_meta
> code. This will not overflow in year 2038 as a time_t would, but
> it still suffers from the overflow problem later on in year 2106.
> 
> Change this instance to use the time64_t type consistently
> and avoid the deprecated get_seconds().
> 
> The nft_meta_weekday() calculation potentially gets a little slower
> on 32-bit architectures, but now it has the same behavior as on
> 64-bit architectures and does not overflow.

Applied, thanks Arnd.