Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 6/8] lp: fix sparc64 LPSETTIMEOUT ioctl

[Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 21:34 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The layout of struct timeval is different on sparc64 from
> anything else, and the patch I did long ago failed to take
> this into account.
> 
> Change it now to handle sparc64 user space correctly again.
> 
> Quite likely nobody cares about parallel ports on sparc64,
> but there is no reason not to fix it.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 9a450484089d ("lp: support 64-bit time_t user space")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  drivers/char/lp.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/lp.c b/drivers/char/lp.c
> index 7c9269e3477a..bd95aba1f9fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/lp.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/lp.c
> @@ -713,6 +713,10 @@ static int lp_set_timeout64(unsigned int minor, void __user *arg)
>  	if (copy_from_user(karg, arg, sizeof(karg)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> +	/* sparc64 suseconds_t is 32-bit only */
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARC64) && !in_compat_syscall())
> +		karg[1] >>= 32;
> +
>  	return lp_set_timeout(minor, karg[0], karg[1]);
>  }
>

It seems like it would make way more sense to use __kernel_old_timeval.
Then you don't have to explicitly handle the sparc64 oddity.

As it is, this still over-reads from user-space which might result in a
spurious -EFAULT.

Ben.

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