Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 7/8] ppdev: fix PPGETTIME/PPSETTIME ioctls

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed Nov 20 2019 - 14:29:38 EST


On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 21:34 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Going through the uses of timeval in the user space API,
> I noticed two bugs in ppdev that were introduced in the y2038
> conversion:
>
> * The range check was accidentally moved from ppsettime to
> ppgettime
>
> * On sparc64, the microseconds are in the other half of the
> 64-bit word.
>
> Fix both, and mark the fix for stable backports.

Like the patch for lpdev, this also doesn't completely fix sparc64.

Ben.

> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 3b9ab374a1e6 ("ppdev: convert to y2038 safe")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/char/ppdev.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
> index c86f18aa8985..34bb88fe0b0a 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
> @@ -619,20 +619,27 @@ static int pp_do_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> if (copy_from_user(time32, argp, sizeof(time32)))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> + if ((time32[0] < 0) || (time32[1] < 0))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> return pp_set_timeout(pp->pdev, time32[0], time32[1]);
>
> case PPSETTIME64:
> if (copy_from_user(time64, argp, sizeof(time64)))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> + if ((time64[0] < 0) || (time64[1] < 0))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARC64) && !in_compat_syscall())
> + time64[1] >>= 32;
> +
> return pp_set_timeout(pp->pdev, time64[0], time64[1]);
>
> case PPGETTIME32:
> jiffies_to_timespec64(pp->pdev->timeout, &ts);
> time32[0] = ts.tv_sec;
> time32[1] = ts.tv_nsec / NSEC_PER_USEC;
> - if ((time32[0] < 0) || (time32[1] < 0))
> - return -EINVAL;
>
> if (copy_to_user(argp, time32, sizeof(time32)))
> return -EFAULT;
> @@ -643,8 +650,9 @@ static int pp_do_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> jiffies_to_timespec64(pp->pdev->timeout, &ts);
> time64[0] = ts.tv_sec;
> time64[1] = ts.tv_nsec / NSEC_PER_USEC;
> - if ((time64[0] < 0) || (time64[1] < 0))
> - return -EINVAL;
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARC64) && !in_compat_syscall())
> + time64[1] <<= 32;
>
> if (copy_to_user(argp, time64, sizeof(time64)))
> return -EFAULT;
--
Ben Hutchings, Software Developer Codethink Ltd
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