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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:02:00 +0800
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 3/5] security: Introduce security_settime64()
From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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On 19 April 2016 at 00:54, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> wrote:
>> security_settime() uses a timespec, which is not year 2038 safe
>> on 32bit systems. Thus this patch introduces the security_settime64()
>> function with timespec64 type. We also convert the cap_settime() helper
>> function to use the 64bit types.
>>
>> Move the security_settime() to the head file as a inline function for
>> removing that inline helper when following up patches are fixed the
>> call sites.
>>
>> None of the existing hooks is using the timespec argument and therefor
>> the patch is not doing any functional changes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
>
> Hey Baolin,
>   If you get an ack, like you did from James, please include it in the
> commit message of following submissions

Ah, sorry, I forgot that. Do I need to resend it with James ack? Thanks.

>
> Serge, Kees: Any objection to this patch going in via the
> tip/timers/core tree with the dependent settimeofday64 call?
>
> Otherwise I'll queue this up for testing.
>
> thanks
> -john
>
>
> .


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