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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ubifs: tnc: use monotonic znode timestamp
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Am Montag, 2. Juli 2018, 16:24:15 CEST schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> Arnd,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2018, 10:29:11 CEST schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> > The tnc uses get_seconds() based timestamps to check the age of a znode,
> > which has two problems: on 32-bit architectures this may overflow in
> > 2038 or 2106, and it gives incorrect information when the system time
> > is updated using settimeofday().
> >
> > Using montonic timestamps with ktime_get_seconds() solves both thes
> > problems.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > ---
> > fs/ubifs/shrinker.c | 2 +-
> > fs/ubifs/tnc.c | 4 ++--
> > fs/ubifs/tnc_misc.c | 2 +-
> > fs/ubifs/ubifs.h | 2 +-
> > 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c b/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
> > index 9a9fb94a41c6..9d10cbdec2cc 100644
> > --- a/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
> > +++ b/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
> > @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int shrink_tnc(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr, int age, int *contention)
> > {
> > int total_freed = 0;
> > struct ubifs_znode *znode, *zprev;
> > - int time = get_seconds();
> > + time64_t time = ktime_get_seconds();
>
> ubifs does
> abs(time - znode->time) >= age) {
>
> Is this still legit with time64_t?

Answering my own question, yes.
abs() seems to be able to deal with 64bit numbers and time64_t is just a number.

Thanks,
//richard

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