[PATCH] afs: correctly use 64-bit time for UUID
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Jan 11 05:51:32 PST 2017
Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina at gmail.com>
>
> 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.
Is it worth abstracting out in-kernel UUID generation?
David
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