Re: [PATCH v3] rtc: wilco-ec: Handle reading invalid times

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 1:32 PM Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the RTC HW returns an invalid time, the rtc_year_days()
> call would crash. This patch adds error logging in this
> situation, and removes the tm_yday and tm_wday calculations.
> These fields should not be relied upon by userspace
> according to man rtc, and thus we don't need to calculate
> them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> index 8ad4c4e6d557..53da355d996a 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> @@ -110,10 +110,15 @@ 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);
> -
> -       /* Don't compute day of week, we don't need it. */
> -       tm->tm_wday = -1;
> +       /* Ignore other tm fields, man rtc says userspace shouldn't use them. */
> +
> +       if (rtc_valid_tm(tm)) {
> +               dev_err(dev,
> +                        "Time from RTC is invalid: second=%u, minute=%u, hour=%u, day=%u, month=%u, year=%u, century=%u",
> +                        rtc.second, rtc.minute, rtc.hour, rtc.day, rtc.month,
> +                        rtc.year, rtc.century);
> +               return -EIO;
> +       }
>
>         return 0;
>  }
> --
> 2.21.0
>

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry