Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Anholt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: raspberrypi: print time using time64_t | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:20:31 -0800 |
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> The firmware timestamp is an unsigned 32-bit value, but we copy it into > a signed 32-bit variable, so we can theoretically get an overflow in > the calculation when the timestamp is between 2038 and 2106. > > This changes the temporary variable to time64_t and changes the deprecated > time_to_tm() over to time64_to_tm() accordingly. > > There is still an overflow in y2106, but that is a limitation of the > firmware interface, not a kernel problem.
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
I'll pull this in our branches. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |