Re: [PATCH v3 14/22] time:Introduce the do_sys_settimeofday64() function with timespec64 type

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue May 12 2015 - 11:17:03 EST


On Mon, 11 May 2015, Baolin Wang wrote:

> This patch introduces the do_sys_settimeofday64() function with timespec64
> type, that makes this function ready for 2038 issue when setting the time of day.

Copy and paste is your favourite work method, right?

> -int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct timespec *tv, const struct timezone *tz)
> +int do_sys_settimeofday64(const struct timespec64 *tv, const struct timezone *tz)
> {
> static int firsttime = 1;
> int error = 0;
> + struct timespec ts;
>
> - if (tv && !timespec_valid(tv))
> + if (tv && !timespec64_valid(tv))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - error = security_settime(tv, tz);
> + ts = timespec64_to_timespec(*tv);
> + error = security_settime(&ts, tz);

How is that 2038 safe? Not at all.

I told you before that we fix the underlying functions before we add
such bogosities.

Thanks,

tglx

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