linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20171019151737.GC17891@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:17:37 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     y2038@...ts.linaro.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027

On Thu 19-10-17 16:47:48, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> isofs uses a 'char' variable to load the number of years since
> 1900 for an inode timestamp. On architectures that use a signed
> char type by default, this results in an invalid date for
> anything beyond 2027.
> 
> This changes the function argument to a 'u8' array, which
> is defined the same way on all architectures, and unambiguously
> lets us use years until 2155.
> 
> This should be backported to all kernels that might still be
> in use by that date.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
...
> -int iso_date(char * p, int flag)
> +int iso_date(u8 *p, int flag)
>  {
>  	int year, month, day, hour, minute, second, tz;
>  	int crtime;
>  
> -	year = p[0];
> +	year = (int)(u8)p[0];

The cast seems unnecessary now?

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR