netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: rxrpc: Replace time_t type with time64

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Date:   Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:33:53 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, james.l.morris@...cle.com,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, marc.dionne@...istor.com,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: rxrpc: Replace time_t type with time64_t type

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> > @@ -533,8 +536,9 @@ static int rxrpc_preparse_xdr_rxk5(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep,
> >              pptoken = &(*pptoken)->next)
> >                 continue;
> >         *pptoken = token;
> > -       if (token->kad->expiry < prep->expiry)
> > -               prep->expiry = token->kad->expiry;
> ...
>
> I'm still slightly puzzled by what this function does: it does have four
> timestamps (authtime, starttime, endtime, renew_till) that are all
> transferred as 64-bit values and won't expire, but then it also uses the
> 32-bit expiry field in rxrpc_key_token->kad->expiry instead of the 64-bit
> rxrpc_key_token->k5 fields.

Good catch.  This is a cut'n'paste error.  It should be using
token->k5->expiry here not token->kad->expiry.

> This appears to overlay the first 32 bits of the
> rxrpc_key_token->k5->starttime field, which is also a time value on
> little-endian architectures by chance, but I would assume that it's always
> in the past, meaning the keys would already be expired.

Yeah - I'm not sure why it works.

David