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Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in rtc_time64_to_tm

From Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in rtc_time64_to_tm
Date 2015-12-04 03:10 +0100
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On 12/03/2015 08:55 PM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 at 19:12:24 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote :
>> > At some point after humans go extinct and robots cotrol the world, dividing
>> > he time64_t by 86400 to extract the days will overflow a 32bit integer,
>> > leading to incorrect conversion into rtc_time in rtc_time64_to_tm().
>> > 
> And at that time, the robots won't care about 32bit platforms :)

One can only hope... :)

I'll resend.


Thanks,
Sasha
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[PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in rtc_time64_to_tm Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2015-12-04 01:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in  rtc_time64_to_tm kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-12-04 01:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in  rtc_time64_to_tm kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-12-04 02:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in  rtc_time64_to_tm kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-12-04 02:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in  rtc_time64_to_tm Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2015-12-04 03:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in  rtc_time64_to_tm Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2015-12-04 03:10 +0100

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