On 13 May 2015 at 15:55, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 May 2015 10:43:25 Baolin Wang wrote:
> > > > -int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct timespec *tv, const struct
> > > timezone *tz)
> > > > +int do_sys_settimeofday64(const struct timespec64 *tv, const struct
> > > timezone *tz)
> > > >  {
> > > >       static int firsttime = 1;
> > > >       int error = 0;
> > > > +     struct timespec ts;
> > > >
> > > > -     if (tv && !timespec_valid(tv))
> > > > +     if (tv && !timespec64_valid(tv))
> > > >               return -EINVAL;
> > > >
> > > > -     error = security_settime(tv, tz);
> > > > +     ts = timespec64_to_timespec(*tv);
> > > > +     error = security_settime(&ts, tz);
> > >
> > > How is that 2038 safe? Not at all.
> > >
> > > I told you before that we fix the underlying functions before we add
> > > such bogosities.
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks for your comments, and i'll continue to repair my patch.
> > But could you explain what the defects in do_sys_settimeofday64
> > function? Thanks.
>
> What Thomas meant here is that you should first fix security_settime
> to take a timespec64 argument. I guess you could introduce a
> security_settime64() function first, using another inline wrapper
> to provide the existing security_settime() API. security_settime()
> does not actually use the time argument, so this is a fairly easy
> thing to do.
>
>         Arnd
>

Hi Arnd,

Thanks for your comments, i'll try to introduce the
new security_settime64() function
as we talked in private. Thanks.

-- 
Baolin.wang
Best Regards
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