Re: [PATCH] rtc: cmos: initialize rtc time when reading alarm

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Thu Aug 13 2020 - 03:33:30 EST


Hi,

On 13/08/2020 15:41:34+1000, Victor Ding wrote:
> cmos_read_alarm() may leave certain fields of a struct rtc_time
> untouched; therefore, these fields contain garbage if not properly
> initialized, leading to inconsistent values when converting into
> time64_t.
> This patch to set all fields of a struct rtc_time to -1 before calling
> cmos_read_alarm().
>

I don't think this actually helps with the conversion as mktime64
is taking unsigned int so I would think you need the whole logic that is
in __rtc_read_alarm

> Signed-off-by: Victor Ding <victording@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> index bcc96ab7793f..c99af567780d 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> @@ -1006,6 +1006,7 @@ static int cmos_suspend(struct device *dev)
> enable_irq_wake(cmos->irq);
> }
>
> + memset(&cmos->saved_wkalrm.time, -1, sizeof(struct rtc_time));
> cmos_read_alarm(dev, &cmos->saved_wkalrm);
>
> dev_dbg(dev, "suspend%s, ctrl %02x\n",
> @@ -1054,6 +1055,7 @@ static void cmos_check_wkalrm(struct device *dev)
> return;
> }
>
> + memset(&current_alarm.time, -1, sizeof(struct rtc_time));
> cmos_read_alarm(dev, &current_alarm);
> t_current_expires = rtc_tm_to_time64(&current_alarm.time);
> t_saved_expires = rtc_tm_to_time64(&cmos->saved_wkalrm.time);
> --
> 2.28.0.236.gb10cc79966-goog
>

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