Re: [PATCH 10/12] net: sctp: avoid incorrect time_t use
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: 2015-09-30 13:57:54
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
We want to avoid using time_t in the kernel because of the y2038 overflow problem. The use in sctp is not for storing seconds at all, but instead uses microseconds and is passed as 32-bit on all machines. This patch changes the type to u32, which better fits the use. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <redacted> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org --- net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 2 +- net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c index 7954c52e1794..763e06a55155 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c@@ -2494,7 +2494,7 @@ static int sctp_process_param(struct sctp_association *asoc, __u16 sat; int retval = 1; sctp_scope_t scope; - time_t stale; + u32 stale; struct sctp_af *af; union sctp_addr_param *addr_param; struct sctp_transport *t;diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c index d7eaa7354cf7..6f46aa16cb76 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c@@ -2306,7 +2306,7 @@ static sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale(struct net *net, sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands) { struct sctp_chunk *chunk = arg; - time_t stale; + u32 stale; sctp_cookie_preserve_param_t bht; sctp_errhdr_t *err; struct sctp_chunk *reply;-- 2.1.0.rc2
Assignments to this variable use ntohl, won't this change risk overflow? Neil