From: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.ker...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:21:26 -0700
> The millisecond timestamps returned by the function is
> converted to network byte order by making a call to htons().
> htons() only returns __be16 while __be32 is required here.
>
> This was identified by the sparse warning from the buildbot:
> net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1405:16: sparse: incorrect type in return
> expression (different base types)
> net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1405:16: expected restricted __be32
> net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1405:16: got restricted __be16 [usertype] <noident>
>
> Change the function to use htonl() to return the correct __be32 type
> instead so that the millisecond value doesn't get truncated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.ker...@gmail.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuz...@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshf...@linux-ipv6.org>
> Cc: James Morris <jmor...@namei.org>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <ka...@trash.net>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Fixes: 822c868532ca ("net: ipv4: Convert IP network timestamps to be y2038
> safe")
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com> [0-day test robot]
Applied and queued up for -stable.
