Re: [PATCH] tomoyo: fix timestamping for y2038

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 08:29:24 EST


On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> Tomoyo uses an open-coded version of time_to_tm() to create a timestamp
>> from the current time as read by get_seconds(). This will overflow and
>> give wrong results on 32-bit systems in 2038.
>>

>
> Thank you.
>
> Please fold below diff into your patch, for year calculation is wrong.

Done, thanks for spotting this!

>
> Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Arnd