Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in
 rtc_time64_to_tm
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
References: <1449187944-11730-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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Cc: a.zummo@towertech.it, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Message-ID: <5660F533.1070705@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 21:06:43 -0500
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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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