Re: [PATCH v3] rtc: wilco-ec: Handle reading invalid times

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Sep 25 2019 - 16:51:18 EST


On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 1:32 PM Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the RTC HW returns an invalid time, the rtc_year_days()
> call would crash. This patch adds error logging in this
> situation, and removes the tm_yday and tm_wday calculations.
> These fields should not be relied upon by userspace
> according to man rtc, and thus we don't need to calculate
> them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> index 8ad4c4e6d557..53da355d996a 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> @@ -110,10 +110,15 @@ static int wilco_ec_rtc_read(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
> tm->tm_mday = rtc.day;
> tm->tm_mon = rtc.month - 1;
> tm->tm_year = rtc.year + (rtc.century * 100) - 1900;
> - tm->tm_yday = rtc_year_days(tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_year);
> -
> - /* Don't compute day of week, we don't need it. */
> - tm->tm_wday = -1;
> + /* Ignore other tm fields, man rtc says userspace shouldn't use them. */
> +
> + if (rtc_valid_tm(tm)) {
> + dev_err(dev,
> + "Time from RTC is invalid: second=%u, minute=%u, hour=%u, day=%u, month=%u, year=%u, century=%u",
> + rtc.second, rtc.minute, rtc.hour, rtc.day, rtc.month,
> + rtc.year, rtc.century);
> + return -EIO;
> + }
>
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.21.0
>

Thanks.

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Dmitry