[PATCH] drivers/rtc/interface.c: Validate alarm-time before handling rollover

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 19/05/2017 at 22:18:55 +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> In function __rtc_read_alarm() its possible for an alarm time-stamp to
> be invalid even after replacing missing components with current
> time-stamp. The condition 'alarm->time.tm_year < 70' will trigger this
> case and will cause the call to 'rtc_tm_to_time64(&alarm->time)'
> return a negative value for variable t_alm.
> 
> While handling alarm rollover this negative t_alm (assumed to seconds
> offset from '1970-01-01 00:00:00') is converted back to rtc_time via
> rtc_time64_to_tm() which results in this error log with seemingly
> garbage values:
> 
> "rtc rtc0: invalid alarm value: -2-1--1041528741
> 2005511117:71582844:32"
> 
> This error was generated when the rtc driver (rtc-opal in this case)
> returned an alarm time-stamp of '00-00-00 00:00:00' to indicate that
> the alarm is disabled. Though I have submitted a separate fix for the
> rtc-opal driver, this issue may potentially impact other
> existing/future rtc drivers.
> 
> To fix this issue the patch validates the alarm time-stamp just after
> filling up the missing datetime components and if rtc_valid_tm() still
> reports it to be invalid then bails out of the function without
> handling the rollover.
> 
> Reported-by: Steve Best <sbest at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/interface.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
Applied, thanks.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
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