diff --git a/include/linux/time64.h b/include/linux/time64.h
index 7e5d2fa9ac46..980c71b3001a 100644
--- a/include/linux/time64.h
+++ b/include/linux/time64.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/math64.h>
 
 typedef __s64 time64_t;
+typedef __u64 timeu64_t;
 
 /*
  * This wants to go into uapi/linux/time.h once we agreed about the
diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c
index 667b9335f5d6..bd62fb8e8e77 100644
--- a/kernel/time/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time/time.c
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ struct timespec64 timespec64_add_safe(const struct timespec64 lhs,
 {
 	struct timespec64 res;
 
-	set_normalized_timespec64(&res, lhs.tv_sec + rhs.tv_sec,
+	set_normalized_timespec64(&res, (timeu64_t) lhs.tv_sec + rhs.tv_sec,
 			lhs.tv_nsec + rhs.tv_nsec);
 
 	if (unlikely(res.tv_sec < lhs.tv_sec || res.tv_sec < rhs.tv_sec)) {