On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 13:52 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 11:02:49AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > When we covert a timestamp from raw disk format, we need to consider it
> > to be signed, as the value may represent a date earlier than 1970. This
> > fixes generic/258 on ext4.
> >
> > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: f2ddb05870fb ("ext4: convert to ctime accessor functions")
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the fix!
>
> It had been on my list to checking to see if the ext4 kunit tests
> would pass, since Jan had mentioned that he had done the work to make
> sure the ext4 kunit test would compile, but he hadn't gotten around to
> try run the kunit test. Unfortunately, I hadn't gotten to it.
>
> I *think* the ext4 kunit tests should have caught this as well; out of
> curiosity, have you tried running the ext4 kunit tests either before
> or after this patch? If so, what were your findings?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ted
No, I haven't. I'm running fstests on it now. Is there a quickstart for
running those tests?
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
