[PATCH 1/2] cifs: use timespec64 internally

Paulo Alcantara paulo at paulo.ac
Tue Jun 19 16:36:31 UTC 2018


Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> writes:

> In cifs, the timestamps are stored in memory in the cifs_fattr structure,
> which uses the deprecated 'timespec' structure. Now that the VFS code
> has moved on to 'timespec64', the next step is to change over the fattr
> as well.
>
> This also makes 32-bit and 64-bit systems behave the same way, and
> no longer overflow the 32-bit time_t in year 2038.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c |  4 ++--
>  fs/cifs/cifsglob.h    |  6 +++---
>  fs/cifs/cifsproto.h   |  6 +++---
>  fs/cifs/cifssmb.c     | 12 ++++++------
>  fs/cifs/inode.c       | 34 ++++++++++++++++------------------
>  fs/cifs/netmisc.c     | 19 ++++++++++---------
>  6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara <palcantara at suse.de>

Thanks
Paulo



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