Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] security: Introduce security_settime64()

From: James Morris
Date: Thu Jul 30 2015 - 04:23:53 EST


On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, Baolin Wang wrote:

> security_settime() uses a timespec, which is not year 2038 safe
> on 32bit systems. Thus this patch introduces the security_settime64()
> function with timespec64 type. We also convert the cap_settime() helper
> function to use the 64bit types.
>
> Move the security_settime() to the head file as a inline function for
> removing that inline helper when following up patches are fixed the
> call sites.
>
> None of the existing hooks is using the timespec argument and therefor
> the patch is not doing any functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>


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