Year 2038 time set problem

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 01:31 PM, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > Note that saying "The CPU isn't vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre, therefor
> > the 4.1 kernel is OK" is *incredibly* wrong.
> > 
> > For the record, since 4.1 came out, there's been at *least* a dozen security
> > issues in the Linux kernel that have been a *lot* scarier for security
> > professionals than the Meltdown/Spectre issue.  That only got any news coverage
> > because it was an actual hardware design flaw that was believed to be difficult
> > to easily fix with software changes...
> 
> By this standard, it is necessary to update the kernel and reboot nearly
> every week.  Is that right?

That is correct.

greg k-h