Re: [Y2038] [PATCH RESEND] AFS: Correctly use 64-bit time for UUID

From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [Y2038] [PATCH RESEND] AFS: Correctly use 64-bit time for UUID
Date	2016-01-22 16:20 +0100
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On Friday 22 January 2016 15:32:01 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 


I was missing

From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>

If anyone is going to pick this up, let me know whether you will fix
it up yourself or if I should resend

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