linux-kernel - Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 01/23] y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT

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]

Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:58:19 +0000
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-aio@...ck.org, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 01/23] y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME

On 11/20/19 10:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 22:07 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> [...]
>> --- a/kernel/time/time.c
>> +++ b/kernel/time/time.c
>> @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(settimeofday, struct old_timeval32 __user *, tv,
>>  }
>>  #endif
>>  
>> -#if !defined(CONFIG_64BIT_TIME) || defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>>  SYSCALL_DEFINE1(adjtimex, struct __kernel_timex __user *, txc_p)
>>  {
>>  	struct __kernel_timex txc;		/* Local copy of parameter */
>> @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ int get_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts,
>>  	ts->tv_sec = kts.tv_sec;
>>  
>>  	/* Zero out the padding for 32 bit systems or in compat mode */
>> -	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT_TIME) && in_compat_syscall())
>> +	if (in_compat_syscall())
>>  		kts.tv_nsec &= 0xFFFFFFFFUL;
>>  
>>  	ts->tv_nsec = kts.tv_nsec;
> [...]
> 
> It's not a problem with this patch, but I noticed that this condition
> doesn't match what the comment says.  It looks like it was broken by:
> 
> commit 98f76206b33504b934209d16196477dfa519a807
> Author: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
> Date:   Fri Oct 12 14:42:53 2018 +0100
> 
>     compat: Cleanup in_compat_syscall() callers
> 

Ugh, you right. I've failed to read the condition and thought it's
related to CONFIG_COMPAT :(
I'll send a fix shortly, thanks for spotting this!

-- 
          Dmitry