Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 04/20] mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry

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On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 4:12 PM Ben Hutchings
<ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 18:49 -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> > The warning reuses the uptime max of 30 years used by the
> > setitimeofday().
> >
> > Note that the warning is only added for new filesystem mounts
> > through the mount syscall. Automounts do not have the same warning.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/namespace.c | 11 +++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> > index b26778bdc236..5314fac8035e 100644
> > --- a/fs/namespace.c
> > +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> > @@ -2739,6 +2739,17 @@ static int do_new_mount_fc(struct fs_context *fc, struct path *mountpoint,
> >       error = do_add_mount(real_mount(mnt), mountpoint, mnt_flags);
> >       if (error < 0)
> >               mntput(mnt);
> > +
> > +     if (!error && sb->s_time_max &&
>
> I don't know why you are testing sb->s_time_max here - it should always
> be non-zero since alloc_super() sets it to TIME64_MAX.

I think we support some writable file systems that have no timestamps
at all, so both the minimum and maximum default to 0 (1970-01-01).

For these, there is no point in printing a warning, they just work
as designed, even though the maximum is expired.

       Arnd



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