Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] nfsd: avoid 32-bit time_t

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 12:25:01 EST


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:12 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bruce, Chuck,
> >
> > NFSd is one of the last areas of the kernel that is not y2038 safe
> > yet, this series addresses the remaining issues here.
> >
> > I did not get any comments for the first version I posted [1], and
> > I hope this just means that everything was fine and you plan to
> > merge this soon ;-)
> >
> > I uploaded a git branch to [2] for testing.
> >
> > Please review and merge for linux-5.6 so we can remove the 32-bit
> > time handling from that release.
>
> I've included the update y2038 nfsd branch from
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git y2038-nfsd-v2
>
> in my y2038 branch now, so it should be part of linux-next from the coming
> snapshot. My plan is to send a linux-5.6 pull request to the nfsd
> maintainers for
> this branch unless we find bugs in linux-next or I get more review comments.

Sorry for the silence. The patches look fine to me, so I took them from
your git branch and applied them to my local tree (after fixing up some
minor conflicts with the copy patches) and then saw some
delegation-related test failures, which I haven't had the chance to
investigate yet. Hopefully before the end of the week.

--b.