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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
To: Nick Crews <ncrews@chromium.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@google.com>,
	Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: wilco-ec: Sanitize values received from RTC
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:09:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190912080953.GO21254@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190910151929.780-1-ncrews@chromium.org>

Hi Nick,

On 10/09/2019 16:19:29+0100, Nick Crews wrote:
> Check that the time received from the RTC HW is valid,
> otherwise the computation of rtc_year_days() in the next
> line could, and sometimes does, crash the kernel.
> 
> While we're at it, fix the license to plain "GPL".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Crews <ncrews@chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> index 8ad4c4e6d557..0ccbf2dce832 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> @@ -110,8 +110,16 @@ static int wilco_ec_rtc_read(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
>  	tm->tm_mday	= rtc.day;
>  	tm->tm_mon	= rtc.month - 1;
>  	tm->tm_year	= rtc.year + (rtc.century * 100) - 1900;
> -	tm->tm_yday	= rtc_year_days(tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_year);

If your driver doesn't care about yday, userspace doesn't either. You
can simply not set it.

>  
> +	if (rtc_valid_tm(tm)) {
> +		dev_warn(dev,
> +			 "Time computed from EC RTC is invalid: sec=%d, min=%d, hour=%d, mday=%d, mon=%d, year=%d",
> +			 tm->tm_sec, tm->tm_min, tm->tm_hour, tm->mday,
> +			 tm->mon, tm->year);
> +		return -EIO;
> +	}
> +
> +	tm->tm_yday = rtc_year_days(tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_year);
>  	/* Don't compute day of week, we don't need it. */
>  	tm->tm_wday = -1;
>  
> @@ -188,5 +196,5 @@ module_platform_driver(wilco_ec_rtc_driver);
>  
>  MODULE_ALIAS("platform:rtc-wilco-ec");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Nick Crews <ncrews@chromium.org>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

This should be in a separate patch.

>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Wilco EC RTC driver");
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-12  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-10 15:19 [PATCH] rtc: wilco-ec: Sanitize values received from RTC Nick Crews
2019-09-12  8:09 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2019-09-15 22:44   ` Nick Crews
2019-09-16  8:02     ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-09-16 17:56       ` Nick Crews

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