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

[John Stultz]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>

Hey Baolin,
  If you get an ack, like you did from James, please include it in the
commit message of following submissions

Serge, Kees: Any objection to this patch going in via the
tip/timers/core tree with the dependent settimeofday64 call?

Otherwise I'll queue this up for testing.

thanks
-john


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