From: Deepa Dinamani <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <[email protected]>
> Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> Fixes: 822c868532ca ("net: ipv4: Convert IP network timestamps to be y2038 
> safe")
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> [0-day test robot]

Applied and queued up for -stable.

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