2017-11-10 19:42:58

by adam radford

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] scsi: 3ware: fix 32-bit time calculations

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> twl_aen_queue_event/twa_aen_queue_event, we use do_gettimeofday()
> to read the lower 32 bits of the current time in seconds, to pass
> them to the TW_IOCTL_GET_NEXT_EVENT ioctl or the 3ware_aen_read
> sysfs file.
>
> This will overflow on all architectures in year 2106, there is
> not much we can do about that without breaking the ABI. User
> space has 90 years to learn to deal with it, so it's probably ok.
>
> I'm changing it to use ktime_get_real_seconds() with a comment
> to document what happens when.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c | 5 ++---
> drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c | 5 ++---
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
> index 00e7968a1d70..cb9af3f7b653 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
> @@ -369,7 +369,6 @@ static int twa_aen_drain_queue(TW_Device_Extension *tw_dev, int no_check_reset)
> static void twa_aen_queue_event(TW_Device_Extension *tw_dev, TW_Command_Apache_Header *header)
> {
> u32 local_time;
> - struct timeval time;
> TW_Event *event;
> unsigned short aen;
> char host[16];
> @@ -392,8 +391,8 @@ static void twa_aen_queue_event(TW_Device_Extension *tw_dev, TW_Command_Apache_H
> memset(event, 0, sizeof(TW_Event));
>
> event->severity = TW_SEV_OUT(header->status_block.severity__reserved);
> - do_gettimeofday(&time);
> - local_time = (u32)(time.tv_sec - (sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60));
> + /* event->time_stamp_sec overflows in y2106 */
> + local_time = (u32)(ktime_get_real_seconds() - (sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60));
> event->time_stamp_sec = local_time;
> event->aen_code = aen;
> event->retrieved = TW_AEN_NOT_RETRIEVED;
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c b/drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c
> index b150e131b2e7..c283fdb3cb24 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c
> @@ -221,7 +221,6 @@ static char *twl_aen_severity_lookup(unsigned char severity_code)
> static void twl_aen_queue_event(TW_Device_Extension *tw_dev, TW_Command_Apache_Header *header)
> {
> u32 local_time;
> - struct timeval time;
> TW_Event *event;
> unsigned short aen;
> char host[16];
> @@ -240,8 +239,8 @@ static void twl_aen_queue_event(TW_Device_Extension *tw_dev, TW_Command_Apache_H
> memset(event, 0, sizeof(TW_Event));
>
> event->severity = TW_SEV_OUT(header->status_block.severity__reserved);
> - do_gettimeofday(&time);
> - local_time = (u32)(time.tv_sec - (sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60));
> + /* event->time_stamp_sec overflows in y2106 */
> + local_time = (u32)(ktime_get_real_seconds() - (sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60));
> event->time_stamp_sec = local_time;
> event->aen_code = aen;
> event->retrieved = TW_AEN_NOT_RETRIEVED;
> --
> 2.9.0
>

Acked-by: Adam Radford <[email protected]>

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