rtc: interface: Validate alarm-time before handling rollover
authorVaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 19 May 2017 16:48:55 +0000 (22:18 +0530)
committerAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Wed, 31 May 2017 11:04:54 +0000 (13:04 +0200)
commitda96aea0ed177105cb13ee83b328f6c61e061d3f
treea0f140bd6f0d3c6853e2b2f4b7390521d5083eef
parent6dc1cf6f932bb0ea4d8f5e913a0a401ecacd2f03
rtc: interface: Validate alarm-time before handling rollover

In function __rtc_read_alarm() its possible for an alarm time-stamp to
be invalid even after replacing missing components with current
time-stamp. The condition 'alarm->time.tm_year < 70' will trigger this
case and will cause the call to 'rtc_tm_to_time64(&alarm->time)'
return a negative value for variable t_alm.

While handling alarm rollover this negative t_alm (assumed to seconds
offset from '1970-01-01 00:00:00') is converted back to rtc_time via
rtc_time64_to_tm() which results in this error log with seemingly
garbage values:

"rtc rtc0: invalid alarm value: -2-1--1041528741
2005511117:71582844:32"

This error was generated when the rtc driver (rtc-opal in this case)
returned an alarm time-stamp of '00-00-00 00:00:00' to indicate that
the alarm is disabled. Though I have submitted a separate fix for the
rtc-opal driver, this issue may potentially impact other
existing/future rtc drivers.

To fix this issue the patch validates the alarm time-stamp just after
filling up the missing datetime components and if rtc_valid_tm() still
reports it to be invalid then bails out of the function without
handling the rollover.

Reported-by: Steve Best <sbest@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
drivers/rtc/interface.c