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

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Message-ID: <20191001195342.GH4106@piout.net>
Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 21:53:42 +0200
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     Nick Crews <ncrews@...omium.org>
Cc:     Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        enric.balletbo@...labora.com, bleung@...omium.org,
        dlaurie@...omium.org, djkurtz@...omium.org, dtor@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rtc: wilco-ec: Handle reading invalid times

Hi Nick,

On 25/09/2019 14:32:09-0600, Nick Crews 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@...omium.org>
> ---
>  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);

Do you mind using %ptR? At this point you already filled the tm struct
anyway and if you print century separately, you can infer tm_year.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com