On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
We want to avoid using time_t in the kernel because of the y2038
overflow problem. The use in sctp is not for storing seconds at
all, but instead uses microseconds and is passed as 32-bit
on all machines.
This patch changes the type to u32, which better fits the use.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <redacted>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <redacted>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 2 +-
net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
index 7954c52e1794..763e06a55155 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
@@ -2494,7 +2494,7 @@ static int sctp_process_param(struct sctp_association *asoc,
__u16 sat;
int retval = 1;
sctp_scope_t scope;
- time_t stale;
+ u32 stale;
struct sctp_af *af;
union sctp_addr_param *addr_param;
struct sctp_transport *t;
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
index d7eaa7354cf7..6f46aa16cb76 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
@@ -2306,7 +2306,7 @@ static sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale(struct net *net,
sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands)
{
struct sctp_chunk *chunk = arg;
- time_t stale;
+ u32 stale;
sctp_cookie_preserve_param_t bht;
sctp_errhdr_t *err;
struct sctp_chunk *reply;--
2.1.0.rc2
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