[PATCH] firmware: raspberrypi: print time using time64_t

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Nov 27 03:57:14 PST 2017


The firmware timestamp is an unsigned 32-bit value, but we copy it into
a signed 32-bit variable, so we can theoretically get an overflow in
the calculation when the timestamp is between 2038 and 2106.

This changes the temporary variable to time64_t and changes the deprecated
time_to_tm() over to time64_to_tm() accordingly.

There is still an overflow in y2106, but that is a limitation of the
firmware interface, not a kernel problem.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
---
 drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
index dd506cd3a5b8..6692888f04cf 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ rpi_firmware_print_firmware_revision(struct rpi_firmware *fw)
 	if (ret == 0) {
 		struct tm tm;
 
-		time_to_tm(packet, 0, &tm);
+		time64_to_tm(packet, 0, &tm);
 
 		dev_info(fw->cl.dev,
 			 "Attached to firmware from %04ld-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d\n",
-- 
2.9.0




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