Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:03:50 +0100 |
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On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 1:51:32 PM CET David Howells wrote: > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> > > > > UUID calculation uses 'struct timespec' whose seconds will overflow > > in year 2038 and beyond for 32-bit systems. This patch removes the > > dependency on 'struct timespec' by using ktime_get_real(). > > While the patch does not fix a 'bug' as such, it is part of a larger > > effort to remove instances of 'struct timespec' and other data-structures > > suffering from y2038 problem from the kernel. > > Is it worth abstracting out in-kernel UUID generation?
Do you mean moving it out of AFS into lib/*.c? I think the 'afs_uuid' structure is quite different from other UUID definitions, so that wouldn't work.
Arnd
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