Re: [PATCH] tomoyo: fix timestamping for y2038

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 07:29:07 EST


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Tomoyo uses an open-coded version of time_to_tm() to create a timestamp
> from the current time as read by get_seconds(). This will overflow and
> give wrong results on 32-bit systems in 2038.
>
> To correct this, this changes the code to use ktime_get_real_seconds()
> and the generic time64_to_tm() function that are both y2038-safe.
> Using the library function avoids adding an expensive 64-bit division
> in this code and can benefit from any optimizations we do in common
> code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/tomoyo/audit.c | 2 +-
> security/tomoyo/common.c | 4 ++--
> security/tomoyo/common.h | 2 +-
> security/tomoyo/util.c | 39 +++++++++------------------------------
> 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

Thank you.

Please fold below diff into your patch, for year calculation is wrong.

#0047/10/19 20:08:17# profile=1 mode=learning granted=no (global-pid=1) task={ pid=1 ppid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 egid=0 suid=0 sgid=0 fsuid=0 fsgid=0 } path1={ uid=0 gid=0 ino=639202 major=8 minor=1 perm=0755 type=file } path1.parent={ uid=0 gid=0 ino=155 perm=0755 } exec={ realpath="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" argc=5 envc=0 argv[]={ "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" "--switched-root" "--system" "--deserialize" "21" } envp[]={ } }

--- a/security/tomoyo/util.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/util.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ void tomoyo_convert_time(time64_t time64, struct tomoyo_time *stamp)
stamp->hour = tm.tm_hour;
stamp->day = tm.tm_mday;
stamp->month = tm.tm_mon + 1;
- stamp->year = tm.tm_year - (1970 - 1900);
+ stamp->year = tm.tm_year + 1900;
}

/**

Then, you can add

Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>