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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:49:26 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] x86-64 ext2/ext3 datestamp problem
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Markus Rechberger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is an issue with ext2/ext3 date stamps, if someone creates a file
> with a timestamp between 1902 and 1970(epoch 0) it will overflow and
> result in a higher date than 2038.
> 
> $ touch --date "1905-01-01" test
> $ ls -lah test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan  1  1905 test (this is a cached value here)
> (remount the partition/clear the cache)
> $ ls -lah test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb  6  2041 test
> 
> 10000101101111001100011001110000 .. -2051226000 (1905)
> 10000101101111001100011001110000 .. 2243741296 (2041)
> 
> this was tested against linus git tree
> 

I believe the timestamp fields in ext2/ext3 are defined as unsigned.

	-hpa
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