Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:14:19 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 09/24] quota: avoid time_t in v1_disk_dqblk definition |
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On Fri 13-12-19 21:52:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The time_t type is part of the user interface and not always the > same, with the move to 64-bit timestamps and the difference between > architectures. > > Make the quota format definition independent of this type and use > a basic type of the same length. Make it unsigned in the process > to keep the v1 format working until year 2106 instead of 2038 > on 32-bit architectures. > > Hopefully, everybody has already moved to a newer format long > ago (v2 was introduced with linux-2.4), but it's hard to be sure. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
What's worse, time_t is actually a part of on-disk format for this ancient quota format making format incompatible between 32-bit and 64-bit systems... Anyway, your patch looks good, I'll add it to my tree (speak up if you want to merge it yourself due to something depending on it).
Honza
> --- > fs/quota/quotaio_v1.h | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/quota/quotaio_v1.h b/fs/quota/quotaio_v1.h > index bd11e2c08119..31dca9a89176 100644 > --- a/fs/quota/quotaio_v1.h > +++ b/fs/quota/quotaio_v1.h > @@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ struct v1_disk_dqblk { > __u32 dqb_ihardlimit; /* absolute limit on allocated inodes */ > __u32 dqb_isoftlimit; /* preferred inode limit */ > __u32 dqb_curinodes; /* current # allocated inodes */ > - time_t dqb_btime; /* time limit for excessive disk use */ > - time_t dqb_itime; /* time limit for excessive inode use */ > + > + /* below fields differ in length on 32-bit vs 64-bit architectures */ > + unsigned long dqb_btime; /* time limit for excessive disk use */ > + unsigned long dqb_itime; /* time limit for excessive inode use */ > }; > > #define v1_dqoff(UID) ((loff_t)((UID) * sizeof (struct v1_disk_dqblk))) > -- > 2.20.0 > -- Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> SUSE Labs, CR
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