Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v4 21/24] time/time:Introduce the timespec64_to_jiffies()/jiffies_to_timespec64() function

On 20 May 2015 at 20:34, Arnd Bergmann arnd@linaro.org wrote:

On Tuesday 19 May 2015 20:50:02 Baolin Wang wrote:

...

+static inline void jiffies_to_timespec(const unsigned long jiffies,

•                                  struct timespec *value)
  

+{

•   struct timespec64 *ts;
  

•   *ts = timespec_to_timespec64(*value);
  

•   jiffies_to_timespec64(jiffies, ts);
  

+}

You are dereferencing an uninitialized pointer here. Did you compile-test this? You should have seen a warning from gcc.

    Arnd

Sorry to miss that, I'll fix that asap, thanks.