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[PATCH] initramfs: use time64_t timestamps

by Arnd Bergmann

The cpio format uses a 32-bit number to encode file timestamps, which breaks initramfs support in 2038. This reinterprets the timestamp as unsigned, to give us another 68 years and avoids breaking until 2106. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> --- init/initramfs.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index e64bf7b4c1ca..53aa2d0a53d4 100644 --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static void __init free_hash(void) } } -static long __init do_utime(char *filename, time_t mtime) +static long __init do_utime(char *filename, time64_t mtime) { struct timespec64 t[2]; @@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ static __initdata LIST_HEAD(dir_list); struct dir_entry { struct list_head list; char *name; - time_t mtime; + time64_t mtime; }; -static void __init dir_add(const char *name, time_t mtime) +static void __init dir_add(const char *name, time64_t mtime) { struct dir_entry *de = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dir_entry), GFP_KERNEL); if (!de) @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static void __init dir_utime(void) } } -static __initdata time_t mtime; +static __initdata time64_t mtime; /* cpio header parsing */ @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static void __init parse_header(char *s) uid = parsed[2]; gid = parsed[3]; nlink = parsed[4]; - mtime = parsed[5]; + mtime = parsed[5]; /* breaks in y2106 */ body_len = parsed[6]; major = parsed[7]; minor = parsed[8]; -- 2.9.0

7 years, 2 months

[PATCH] x86: convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64

by Arnd Bergmann

The x86 platform operations are fairly isolated, so we can change them from using timespec to timespec64. I checked that All the users and callers are safe, and there is only one critical function that is broken beyond 2106: pvclock_read_wallclock() uses a 32-bit number of seconds since the epoch to communicate the boot time between host and guest in a virtual environment. This will work until 2106, but we should ideally find a replacement anyway. I've added a comment about it there. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> --- arch/x86/include/asm/intel_mid_vrtc.h | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 6 +++--- arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c | 12 +++++++++--- arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c | 16 ++++++++-------- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel_mid_vrtc.c | 10 +++++----- arch/x86/xen/time.c | 10 +++++----- 9 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_mid_vrtc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_mid_vrtc.h index 86ff4685c409..19202320f0be 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_mid_vrtc.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_mid_vrtc.h @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ extern unsigned char vrtc_cmos_read(unsigned char reg); extern void vrtc_cmos_write(unsigned char val, unsigned char reg); -extern void vrtc_get_time(struct timespec *now); -extern int vrtc_set_mmss(const struct timespec *now); +extern void vrtc_get_time(struct timespec64 *now); +extern int vrtc_set_mmss(const struct timespec64 *now); #endif diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h index 24acd9ba7837..1b574e5eb3b2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ static inline unsigned char current_lock_cmos_reg(void) unsigned char rtc_cmos_read(unsigned char addr); void rtc_cmos_write(unsigned char val, unsigned char addr); -extern int mach_set_rtc_mmss(const struct timespec *now); -extern void mach_get_cmos_time(struct timespec *now); +extern int mach_set_rtc_mmss(const struct timespec64 *now); +extern void mach_get_cmos_time(struct timespec64 *now); #define RTC_IRQ 8 diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h index 448cfe1b48cf..fc3138fd3aff 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ void pvclock_set_flags(u8 flags); unsigned long pvclock_tsc_khz(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src); void pvclock_read_wallclock(struct pvclock_wall_clock *wall, struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *vcpu, - struct timespec *ts); + struct timespec64 *ts); void pvclock_resume(void); void pvclock_touch_watchdogs(void); diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h index f45acdf45957..0c5007b72916 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ struct x86_cpuinit_ops { void (*fixup_cpu_id)(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c, int node); }; -struct timespec; +struct timespec64; /** * struct x86_legacy_devices - legacy x86 devices @@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ struct x86_legacy_features { struct x86_platform_ops { unsigned long (*calibrate_cpu)(void); unsigned long (*calibrate_tsc)(void); - void (*get_wallclock)(struct timespec *ts); - int (*set_wallclock)(const struct timespec *ts); + void (*get_wallclock)(struct timespec64 *ts); + int (*set_wallclock)(const struct timespec64 *ts); void (*iommu_shutdown)(void); bool (*is_untracked_pat_range)(u64 start, u64 end); void (*nmi_init)(void); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c index d88967659098..01c76e8cd4be 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va); * have elapsed since the hypervisor wrote the data. So we try to account for * that with system time */ -static void kvm_get_wallclock(struct timespec *now) +static void kvm_get_wallclock(struct timespec64 *now) { struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *vcpu_time; int low, high; @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static void kvm_get_wallclock(struct timespec *now) put_cpu(); } -static int kvm_set_wallclock(const struct timespec *now) +static int kvm_set_wallclock(const struct timespec64 *now) { return -1; } diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c index 5c3f6d6a5078..1a7084ad07b9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c @@ -121,11 +121,11 @@ u64 pvclock_clocksource_read(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src) void pvclock_read_wallclock(struct pvclock_wall_clock *wall_clock, struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *vcpu_time, - struct timespec *ts) + struct timespec64 *ts) { u32 version; u64 delta; - struct timespec now; + struct timespec64 now; /* get wallclock at system boot */ do { @@ -136,11 +136,17 @@ void pvclock_read_wallclock(struct pvclock_wall_clock *wall_clock, rmb(); /* fetch time before checking version */ } while ((wall_clock->version & 1) || (version != wall_clock->version)); + /* + * Note: wall_clock->sec is a u32 value, so it can only store dates + * between 1970 and 2106. To allow times beyond that, we need to + * create a new hypercall interface with an extended pvclock_wall_clock + * structure like ARM has. + */ delta = pvclock_clocksource_read(vcpu_time); /* time since system boot */ delta += now.tv_sec * (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC + now.tv_nsec; now.tv_nsec = do_div(delta, NSEC_PER_SEC); now.tv_sec = delta; - set_normalized_timespec(ts, now.tv_sec, now.tv_nsec); + set_normalized_timespec64(ts, now.tv_sec, now.tv_nsec); } diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c index 5b21cb7d84d6..f5a687c38c6d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c @@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_lock); * jump to the next second precisely 500 ms later. Check the Motorola * MC146818A or Dallas DS12887 data sheet for details. */ -int mach_set_rtc_mmss(const struct timespec *now) +int mach_set_rtc_mmss(const struct timespec64 *now) { - unsigned long nowtime = now->tv_sec; + time64_t nowtime = now->tv_sec; struct rtc_time tm; int retval = 0; - rtc_time_to_tm(nowtime, &tm); + rtc_time64_to_tm(nowtime, &tm); if (!rtc_valid_tm(&tm)) { retval = mc146818_set_time(&tm); if (retval) @@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ int mach_set_rtc_mmss(const struct timespec *now) __func__, retval); } else { printk(KERN_ERR - "%s: Invalid RTC value: write of %lx to RTC failed\n", + "%s: Invalid RTC value: write of %llx to RTC failed\n", __func__, nowtime); retval = -EINVAL; } return retval; } -void mach_get_cmos_time(struct timespec *now) +void mach_get_cmos_time(struct timespec64 *now) { unsigned int status, year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, century = 0; unsigned long flags; @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ void mach_get_cmos_time(struct timespec *now) } else year += CMOS_YEARS_OFFS; - now->tv_sec = mktime(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec); + now->tv_sec = mktime64(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec); now->tv_nsec = 0; } @@ -144,13 +144,13 @@ void rtc_cmos_write(unsigned char val, unsigned char addr) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_cmos_write); -int update_persistent_clock(struct timespec now) +int update_persistent_clock64(struct timespec64 now) { return x86_platform.set_wallclock(&now); } /* not static: needed by APM */ -void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts) +void read_persistent_clock64(struct timespec64 *ts) { x86_platform.get_wallclock(ts); } diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel_mid_vrtc.c b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel_mid_vrtc.c index 58024862a7eb..d68b9b10481d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel_mid_vrtc.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel_mid_vrtc.c @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ void vrtc_cmos_write(unsigned char val, unsigned char reg) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vrtc_cmos_write); -void vrtc_get_time(struct timespec *now) +void vrtc_get_time(struct timespec64 *now) { u8 sec, min, hour, mday, mon; unsigned long flags; @@ -83,18 +83,18 @@ void vrtc_get_time(struct timespec *now) pr_info("vRTC: sec: %d min: %d hour: %d day: %d " "mon: %d year: %d\n", sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year); - now->tv_sec = mktime(year, mon, mday, hour, min, sec); + now->tv_sec = mktime64(year, mon, mday, hour, min, sec); now->tv_nsec = 0; } -int vrtc_set_mmss(const struct timespec *now) +int vrtc_set_mmss(const struct timespec64 *now) { unsigned long flags; struct rtc_time tm; int year; int retval = 0; - rtc_time_to_tm(now->tv_sec, &tm); + rtc_time64_to_tm(now->tv_sec, &tm); if (!rtc_valid_tm(&tm) && tm.tm_year >= 72) { /* * tm.year is the number of years since 1900, and the @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ int vrtc_set_mmss(const struct timespec *now) vrtc_cmos_write(tm.tm_sec, RTC_SECONDS); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags); } else { - pr_err("%s: Invalid vRTC value: write of %lx to vRTC failed\n", + pr_err("%s: Invalid vRTC value: write of %llx to vRTC failed\n", __func__, now->tv_sec); retval = -EINVAL; } diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/time.c b/arch/x86/xen/time.c index 1ecb05db3632..b1eed21a7b46 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static u64 xen_clocksource_get_cycles(struct clocksource *cs) return xen_clocksource_read(); } -static void xen_read_wallclock(struct timespec *ts) +static void xen_read_wallclock(struct timespec64 *ts) { struct shared_info *s = HYPERVISOR_shared_info; struct pvclock_wall_clock *wall_clock = &(s->wc); @@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ static void xen_read_wallclock(struct timespec *ts) put_cpu_var(xen_vcpu); } -static void xen_get_wallclock(struct timespec *now) +static void xen_get_wallclock(struct timespec64 *now) { xen_read_wallclock(now); } -static int xen_set_wallclock(const struct timespec *now) +static int xen_set_wallclock(const struct timespec64 *now) { return -1; } @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static const struct pv_time_ops xen_time_ops __initconst = { static void __init xen_time_init(void) { int cpu = smp_processor_id(); - struct timespec tp; + struct timespec64 tp; /* As Dom0 is never moved, no penalty on using TSC there */ if (xen_initial_domain()) @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static void __init xen_time_init(void) /* Set initial system time with full resolution */ xen_read_wallclock(&tp); - do_settimeofday(&tp); + do_settimeofday64(&tp); setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC); -- 2.9.0

7 years, 2 months

[PATCH] posix-stubs: use get_timespec64() and put_timespec64()

by Arnd Bergmann

This is a follow-up to commit 5c4994102fb5 ("posix-timers: Use get_timespec64() and put_timespec64()"), which left two system call using copy_from_user()/copy_to_user(). We can change them as well for consistency. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> --- kernel/time/posix-stubs.c | 20 ++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c b/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c index 06f34feb635e..b258bee13b02 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c @@ -117,8 +117,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(clock_nanosleep, const clockid_t, which_clock, int, flags, const struct timespec __user *, rqtp, struct timespec __user *, rmtp) { - struct timespec64 t64; - struct timespec t; + struct timespec64 t; switch (which_clock) { case CLOCK_REALTIME: @@ -129,16 +128,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(clock_nanosleep, const clockid_t, which_clock, int, flags, return -EINVAL; } - if (copy_from_user(&t, rqtp, sizeof (struct timespec))) + if (get_timespec64(&t, rqtp)) return -EFAULT; - t64 = timespec_to_timespec64(t); - if (!timespec64_valid(&t64)) + if (!timespec64_valid(&t)) return -EINVAL; if (flags & TIMER_ABSTIME) rmtp = NULL; current->restart_block.nanosleep.type = rmtp ? TT_NATIVE : TT_NONE; current->restart_block.nanosleep.rmtp = rmtp; - return hrtimer_nanosleep(&t64, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME ? + return hrtimer_nanosleep(&t, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME ? HRTIMER_MODE_ABS : HRTIMER_MODE_REL, which_clock); } @@ -203,8 +201,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(clock_nanosleep, clockid_t, which_clock, int, flags, struct compat_timespec __user *, rqtp, struct compat_timespec __user *, rmtp) { - struct timespec64 t64; - struct timespec t; + struct timespec64 t; switch (which_clock) { case CLOCK_REALTIME: @@ -215,16 +212,15 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(clock_nanosleep, clockid_t, which_clock, int, flags, return -EINVAL; } - if (compat_get_timespec(&t, rqtp)) + if (compat_get_timespec64(&t, rqtp)) return -EFAULT; - t64 = timespec_to_timespec64(t); - if (!timespec64_valid(&t64)) + if (!timespec64_valid(&t)) return -EINVAL; if (flags & TIMER_ABSTIME) rmtp = NULL; current->restart_block.nanosleep.type = rmtp ? TT_COMPAT : TT_NONE; current->restart_block.nanosleep.compat_rmtp = rmtp; - return hrtimer_nanosleep(&t64, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME ? + return hrtimer_nanosleep(&t, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME ? HRTIMER_MODE_ABS : HRTIMER_MODE_REL, which_clock); } -- 2.9.0

7 years, 2 months

[PATCH] KVM: x86: use timespec64 for KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING

by Arnd Bergmann

The hypercall was added using a struct timespec based implementation, but we should not use timespec in new code. This changes it to timespec64. There is no functional change here since the implementation is only used in 64-bit kernels that use the same definition for timespec and timespec64. Fixes: 55dd00a73a51 ("KVM: x86: add KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING hypercall") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 03869eb7fcd6..4b81a373a7ec 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ static int do_monotonic_boot(s64 *t, u64 *cycle_now) return mode; } -static int do_realtime(struct timespec *ts, u64 *cycle_now) +static int do_realtime(struct timespec64 *ts, u64 *cycle_now) { struct pvclock_gtod_data *gtod = &pvclock_gtod_data; unsigned long seq; @@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ static bool kvm_get_time_and_clockread(s64 *kernel_ns, u64 *cycle_now) } /* returns true if host is using tsc clocksource */ -static bool kvm_get_walltime_and_clockread(struct timespec *ts, +static bool kvm_get_walltime_and_clockread(struct timespec64 *ts, u64 *cycle_now) { /* checked again under seqlock below */ @@ -6210,7 +6210,7 @@ static int kvm_pv_clock_pairing(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t paddr, unsigned long clock_type) { struct kvm_clock_pairing clock_pairing; - struct timespec ts; + struct timespec64 ts; u64 cycle; int ret; -- 2.9.0

7 years, 2 months

[PATCH] time: use do_settimeofday64 internally

by Arnd Bergmann

do_settimeofday is a wrapper around do_settimeofday64, so we can simply call that function directly, and kill off the wrapper once the last user is one. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> --- kernel/time/time.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c index 0ec7087fe85b..e0ad6922373d 100644 --- a/kernel/time/time.c +++ b/kernel/time/time.c @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(time, time_t __user *, tloc) SYSCALL_DEFINE1(stime, time_t __user *, tptr) { - struct timespec tv; + struct timespec64 tv; int err; if (get_user(tv.tv_sec, tptr)) @@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(stime, time_t __user *, tptr) tv.tv_nsec = 0; - err = security_settime(&tv, NULL); + err = security_settime64(&tv, NULL); if (err) return err; - do_settimeofday(&tv); + do_settimeofday64(&tv); return 0; } @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(time, compat_time_t __user *, tloc) COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(stime, compat_time_t __user *, tptr) { - struct timespec tv; + struct timespec64 tv; int err; if (get_user(tv.tv_sec, tptr)) @@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(stime, compat_time_t __user *, tptr) tv.tv_nsec = 0; - err = security_settime(&tv, NULL); + err = security_settime64(&tv, NULL); if (err) return err; - do_settimeofday(&tv); + do_settimeofday64(&tv); return 0; } -- 2.9.0

7 years, 2 months

FWD: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DebConf 17

by Steve McIntyre

Hi folks, As discussed with Arnd, I ran a BoF session about Y2038 at DebConf last month, giving an overview of the problem and starting some discussion. Here's the write-up, and there's a link to the video of the session below. ----- Forwarded message from Steve McIntyre <steve(a)einval.com> ----- From: Steve McIntyre <steve(a)einval.com> To: debian-devel(a)lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 00:58:54 +0100 Subject: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17 Hi folks, As promised, here's a quick summary of what was discussed at the 2038 BoF session I ran in Montréal. Thanks to the awesome efforts of our video team, the session is already online [1]. I've taken a copy of the Gobby notes too, alongside my small set of slides for the session. [2] We had a conversation about the coming End of The World, the 2038 problem. What's the problem? ------------------- UNIX time_t is 31 bits (signed), counting seconds since Jan 1, 1970. It's going to wrap. It's used *everywhere* in UNIX-based systems. Imagine the effects of Y2K, but worse. What could go wrong? -------------------- All kinds if disasters! We're not trying to exaggerate this *too* much, but it's likely to be a significat problem. For most of the things that needed fixing for Y2K, they were on big obvious computers, typically mainframes. Y2K was solved by people doing a lot of work; to many outside of the direct work, it almost came to be an anti-climax. In 20 years' time, the systems that we will be trying to fix for the 2038 problem are likely to be much harder to track. They're typically not even going to look like computers - look at the IoT devices available today, and extrapolate. Imagine all kinds of devices with embedded computers that we won't know how to talk to, let alone verify their software. When does it happen? -------------------- Pick the example from the date(1) man page: $ date --date=@$((2**31-1)) Tue 19 Jan 03:14:07 GMT 2038 At that point, lots of software will believe it's suddenly 1902... What needs doing? ----------------- Lots of fixes are going to be needed all the way up the stack. Data formats are often not 2038-safe. The filesystems in use today are typically not ready. Modern ext4 *is*, using 34 bits for seconds and 30 bits for nanoseconds. btrfs uses a 64-bit second counter. But data on older filesystems will need to be migrated. There are many places in the Linux kernel where 32-bit time_t is used. This is being worked on, and so are the interfaces that expose 32-bit time_t. Lots of libraries use 32-bit time_t, even in places where it might not be obvious. Finally, applications will need fixing. Linux kernel ------------ There's project underway to fix Linux time-handling, led by Deepa Dinamani and Arnd Bergmann. There's a web site describing the efforts at https://kernelnewbies.org/y2038 and a mailing list at y2038(a)lists.linaro.org. They are using the y2038 project as a good way to get new developers involved in the Linux kernel, and those people are working on fixing things in a number of areas: adding core 64-bit time support, fixing drivers, and adding new versions of interfaces (syscalls, ioctls). We can't just replace all the existing interfaces with 64-bit versions, of course - we need to continue suporting the existing interfaces for existing code. There are lots of tasks here where people can join in and help. Glibc ----- Glibc is the next obvious piece of the puzzle - almost everything depends on it. Planning is ongoing at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign to provide 64-bit time_t support without breaking the existing 32-bit code. There's more coverage in LWN at https://lwn.net/Articles/664800/ The glibc developers are obviously going to need the kernel to provide 64-bit interfaces to make much progress. Again, there's lot of work to be done here and help will be welcome. Elsewhere? ---------- If you're working further up the stack, it's hard to make many fixes when the lower levels are not yet done. Kernels other than Linux are also going to have the same problems to solve - not really looked at them in much detail. As the old time_t interfaces are POSIX-specified, hopefully we'll get equivalent new 64-bit interfaces that will be standard across systems. Massive numbers of libraries are going to need updates, possibly more than people realise. Anything embedding a time_t will obviously need changing. However, many more structures will embed a timeval or timespec and they're also broken. Almost anything that embeds libc-exposed timing functions will need updating. We're going to need mass rebuilds to find things that break with new interfaces, and to ensure that old interfaces still work. An obvious thing to do here also is automated scanning for ABI compliance as things change. Things to do now ---------------- Firstly: developers trying to be *too* clever are likely to only make things worse - don't do it! Whatever you do in your code, don't bodge around the 32-bit time_t problem. *Don't* store time values in weird formats, and don't assume things about it to "avoid" porting problems. These are all going to cause pain in the future as we try to fix problems. For the time being in your code, *use* time_t and expect an ABI break down the road. This is the best plan *for now*. In terms of things like on-disk data structures, don't try to second-guess future interfaces by simply adding padding space for a 64-bit time_t or equivalent. The final solution for time handling may not be what you expect and you might just make things worse. Dive in and help the kernel and glibc folks if you can! Next, check your code and the dependencies of your code to see if there are any bodges or breakages that you *can* fix now. Discussion ---------- It's a shame to spoil the future pensions of people by trying to fix this problem early! :-) There are various license checkers already in use today - could the same technology help finding time junk? Similarly, are any of the static analysis tools likely to help. It's believed that Coverity (for example) may be looking into the static analysis component of this. There's plenty of scope for developers to help work in these areas too. Do we need to worry about *unsigned* time_t usage too (good to 2106)? As an example, OpenPGP packets use that. This gives us a little bit longer, but will still need to be considered. The main point to consider is fixing things *properly*, don't just hack around things by moving the epoch or something similarly short-term. It's important that we work on fixing issues *now* to stop people building broken things that will bite us. We all expect that our own computer systems will be fine by 2038; Debian systems will be fixed and working! We'll have rebuilt the world with new interfaces and found the issues. The issues are going to be in the IoT, with systems that we won't be able to simply rebuild/verify/test - they'll fail. We need to get the underlying systems right ASAP for those systems. 2038 is the problem we're looking at now, but we're going to start seeing issues well before then - think repeating calendar entries. Libraries often don't need to expose any time_t style information, but it's something to be careful about. If people have worked things out well, changing the internal implementation of a delay function should not pollute up the stack. But it's easy to pick up changes without realising - think about select() in the event loop, for example. Statically linked things (e.g. the Go ecosystem) are likely to bite - we need to make sure that the libraries that they embed are fixed early, before we can rebuild that stack upwards. How can we enforec the ability to upgrade and get support for IoT products so that they don't just brick themselves in future? GPL violations play into this because the sources are unavailable - i.e., no way to rebuild and upgrade. Ancient vendor kernels are a major PITA, and only make things more urgent. If you're designing your own data format without reference to current or upcoming standards, then of course consider the need for better time handling. Conversions will be needed anyway. Main takeaways: * This is a real problem * We need to fix the problem *early* * People are working on this already, and there's plenty of tasks to help with [1] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2017/debconf17/it-s-… [2] https://www.einval.com/~steve/talks/Debconf17-eotw-2038/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve(a)einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve(a)einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer

7 years, 3 months

[PATCH 0/7] [media] y2038 conversion for subsystem

by Arnd Bergmann

Hi everyone, This is a conversion of all subsystem-wide v4l2 code to avoid the use of types based on time_t. The first five patches should all be harmless and obvious, so they can get applied for 4.3 after normal review. The last two patches are marked RFC for now because their possible impact on the user space ABI and to decide if this is the best approach or whether we should instead introduce extra code in the kernel to handle modified user space. There are a few device drivers beyond this series that rely on time_t/timeval/timespec internally, but they are all easy to fix and can be taken care of later. Arnd Arnd Bergmann (7): [media] dvb: use ktime_t for internal timeout [media] dvb: remove unused systime() function [media] dvb: don't use 'time_t' in event ioctl [media] exynos4-is: use monotonic timestamps as advertized [media] use v4l2_get_timestamp where possible [RFC] [media]: v4l2: introduce v4l2_timeval [RFC] [media] introduce v4l2_timespec type for timestamps drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h | 2 +- drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c | 2 +- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c | 17 ++++++----------- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_demux.h | 4 ++-- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_net.c | 2 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dibx000_common.c | 10 ---------- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dibx000_common.h | 2 -- drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c | 7 ++----- drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-mailbox.c | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/meye/meye.h | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/zoran/zoran.h | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.h | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-capture.c | 8 +------- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-lite.c | 7 +------ drivers/media/platform/omap/omap_vout.c | 4 ++-- drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.c | 5 ++--- drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.h | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/s3c-camif/camif-capture.c | 8 +------- drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-ctrls.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2.h | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2_v4l.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c | 6 +++--- drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision.h | 2 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-common.c | 6 +++--- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss_video.c | 5 +---- include/media/v4l2-common.h | 2 +- include/media/videobuf-core.h | 2 +- include/trace/events/v4l2.h | 12 ++++++++++-- include/uapi/linux/dvb/video.h | 3 ++- include/uapi/linux/omap3isp.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 33 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-) -- 2.1.0.rc2

7 years, 3 months

[PATCH 0/2] i/o: Make i/o y2038 safe

by Deepa Dinamani

This is a preparatory series to make i/o y2038-safe by replacing the use of struct timespec which is not y2038 safe by y2038 safe struct timespec64. Sockets and userspace interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series. Deepa Dinamani (2): select: Use get/put_timespec64 io_getevents: Use timespec64 to represent timeouts fs/aio.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- fs/select.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------ 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0 Cc: linux-aio(a)kvack.org

7 years, 4 months

[PATCH v3 0/6] Make ipc y2038 safe

by Deepa Dinamani

The series aims to transition internal workings of ipc subsystem to use y2038-safe types and apis. The series is based on Al Viro's #work.ipc branch. Changes since v2: * Removed extra typecasts Changes since v1: * Addressed audit review comments Deepa Dinamani (6): ipc: Make sys_semtimedop() y2038 safe ipc: mqueue: Replace timespec with timespec64 ipc: msg: Make msg_queue timestamps y2038 safe ipc: sem: Make sem_array timestamps y2038 safe ipc: shm: Make shmid_kernel timestamps y2038 safe utimes: Make utimes y2038 safe fs/utimes.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- include/linux/audit.h | 6 +++--- include/linux/msg.h | 7 ++++--- include/linux/sem.h | 3 ++- include/linux/shm.h | 6 +++--- include/linux/time.h | 2 +- init/initramfs.c | 2 +- ipc/mqueue.c | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- ipc/msg.c | 6 +++--- ipc/sem.c | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- ipc/shm.c | 10 +++++----- kernel/audit.h | 2 +- kernel/auditsc.c | 12 ++++++------ 13 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0 Cc: Paul Moore <paul(a)paul-moore.com> Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com>

7 years, 4 months

[PATCH v2 0/6] Make ipc y2038 safe

by Deepa Dinamani

The series aims to transition internal workings of ipc subsystem to use y2038-safe types and apis. The series is based on Al Viro's #work.ipc branch. Changes since v1: * Addressed audit review comments Deepa Dinamani (6): ipc: Make sys_semtimedop() y2038 safe ipc: mqueue: Replace timespec with timespec64 ipc: msg: Make msg_queue timestamps y2038 safe ipc: sem: Make sem_array timestamps y2038 safe ipc: shm: Make shmid_kernel timestamps y2038 safe utimes: Make utimes y2038 safe fs/utimes.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- include/linux/audit.h | 6 +++--- include/linux/msg.h | 7 ++++--- include/linux/sem.h | 3 ++- include/linux/shm.h | 6 +++--- include/linux/time.h | 2 +- init/initramfs.c | 2 +- ipc/mqueue.c | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- ipc/msg.c | 12 ++++++------ ipc/sem.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- ipc/shm.c | 16 ++++++++-------- kernel/audit.h | 2 +- kernel/auditsc.c | 12 ++++++------ 13 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0

7 years, 4 months

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