Re: [PATCH] jbd2: make journal y2038 safe

From	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] jbd2: make journal y2038 safe
Date	2016-06-30 18:00 +0200
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 05:53:47PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 17-06-16 17:39:00, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The jbd2 journal stores the commit time in 64-bit seconds and 32-bit
> > nanoseconds, which avoids an overflow in 2038, but it gets the numbers
> > from current_kernel_time(), which uses 'long' seconds on 32-bit
> > architectures.
> > 
> > This simply changes the code to call current_kernel_time64() so
> > we use 64-bit seconds consistently.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> The patch looks good. You can add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted

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