diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 2ed547f5c3b6dbc1a9f99af99e862cdd22cbea08..4b8a264e9777d2f5398bfb1b0b3f6207eab5fe08 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3173,8 +3173,7 @@ int md_rdev_init(struct md_rdev *rdev)
 	rdev->data_offset = 0;
 	rdev->new_data_offset = 0;
 	rdev->sb_events = 0;
-	rdev->last_read_error.tv_sec  = 0;
-	rdev->last_read_error.tv_nsec = 0;
+	rdev->last_read_error = 0;
 	rdev->sb_loaded = 0;
 	rdev->bb_page = NULL;
 	atomic_set(&rdev->nr_pending, 0);
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index dc65ca65b26e03744b76ff10750fca6afa4689f7..fd56cfd8c368132d5a2d720a06c1f7cd0d4d4ba7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ struct md_rdev {
 	atomic_t	read_errors;	/* number of consecutive read errors that
 					 * we have tried to ignore.
 					 */
-	struct timespec last_read_error;	/* monotonic time since our
+	time64_t	last_read_error;	/* monotonic time since our
 						 * last read error
 						 */
 	atomic_t	corrected_errors; /* number of corrected read errors,
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 8ee5d96e6a2d88155e9a26e5b711ace69c4a82ba..f7f3c8a634195a7804e08fb887c0de51b763760c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -2174,21 +2174,20 @@ static void recovery_request_write(struct mddev *mddev, struct r10bio *r10_bio)
  */
 static void check_decay_read_errors(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 {
-	struct timespec cur_time_mon;
+	long cur_time_mon;
 	unsigned long hours_since_last;
 	unsigned int read_errors = atomic_read(&rdev->read_errors);
 
-	ktime_get_ts(&cur_time_mon);
+	cur_time_mon = ktime_get_seconds();
 
-	if (rdev->last_read_error.tv_sec == 0 &&
-	    rdev->last_read_error.tv_nsec == 0) {
+	if (rdev->last_read_error == 0) {
 		/* first time we've seen a read error */
 		rdev->last_read_error = cur_time_mon;
 		return;
 	}
 
-	hours_since_last = (cur_time_mon.tv_sec -
-			    rdev->last_read_error.tv_sec) / 3600;
+	hours_since_last = (long)(cur_time_mon -
+			    rdev->last_read_error) / 3600;
 
 	rdev->last_read_error = cur_time_mon;