Re: [Y2038] [RESEND PATCH v3] scsi: stex: Remove use of struct timeval
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Nov 05 2015 - 11:23:21 EST
On Friday 30 October 2015 01:30:40 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> Function stex_gettime uses 'struct timeval' whose tv_sec value
> will overflow on 32-bit systems in year 2038 and beyond. This patch
> replaces the use of struct timeval and do_gettimeofday with
> ktime_get_real_seconds, which returns a 64-bit seconds value.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@xxxxxxxxx>
>
For reference
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
I'm putting this into my y2038 tree so I don't forget it, but I'd hope
that James can apply it into scsi and I'll drop it again.
Arnd
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