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blktrace: avoid using timespec

Message ID 20160617145849.3771756-1-arnd@arndb.de
State Accepted
Commit 59a37f8baeb2c9d97f316584c90892d18bf846d4
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Commit Message

Arnd Bergmann June 17, 2016, 2:58 p.m. UTC
The blktrace code stores the current time in a 32-bit word in its
user interface. This is a bad idea because 32-bit seconds overflow
at some point.

We probably have until 2106 before this one overflows, as it seems
to use an 'unsigned' variable, but we should confirm that user
space treats it the same way.

Aside from this, we want to stop using 'struct timespec' here,
so I'm adding a comment about the overflow and change the code
to use timespec64 instead to make the loss of range more obvious.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

---
 kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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2.9.0
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diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index ef86b965ade3..b0816e4a61a5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -127,12 +127,13 @@  static void trace_note_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 static void trace_note_time(struct blk_trace *bt)
 {
-	struct timespec now;
+	struct timespec64 now;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u32 words[2];
 
-	getnstimeofday(&now);
-	words[0] = now.tv_sec;
+	/* need to check user space to see if this breaks in y2038 or y2106 */
+	ktime_get_real_ts64(&now);
+	words[0] = (u32)now.tv_sec;
 	words[1] = now.tv_nsec;
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);