Re: [PATCH 16/23] y2038: timerfd: Use timespec64 internally
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Nov 13 2019 - 16:49:14 EST
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> timerfd_show() uses a 'struct itimerspec' internally, but that is
> deprecated because of the time_t overflow and a conflict with the glibc
> type of the same name that is now incompatible in user space.
>
> Use a pair of timespec64 variables instead as a simple replacement.
>
> As this removes the last use of itimerspec from the kernel, allowing the
> removal of the definition from the uapi headers along with timespec and
> timeval later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>