The caller of qemu_timedate_diff() does not expect that tm it passes to
the function will be modified, but mktime() is destructive and modifies
its argument. Pass a copy of tm to it and set tm_isdst so that mktime()
will not rely on it since its value may be outdated.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com>
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 624da0f..641629b 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -460,8 +460,11 @@ int qemu_timedate_diff(struct tm *tm)
if (rtc_date_offset == -1)
if (rtc_utc)
seconds = mktimegm(tm);
- else
- seconds = mktime(tm);
+ else {
+ struct tm tmp = *tm;
+ tmp.tm_isdst = -1; /* use timezone to figure it out */
+ seconds = mktime(&tmp);
+ }
else
seconds = mktimegm(tm) + rtc_date_offset;
--
Gleb.
