Nothing calls the efi_get_time function on x86, but it does suffer from the 32-bit time_t overflow in 2038.
To avoid that if anyone starts calling it, this changes the function to use timespec64 and mktime64 instead.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- The obvious alternative would be to remove the function, I'll send that patch as well, so you can pick one or the other.
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 6 +++--- include/linux/efi.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c index 56400d03409f..d72d5de02f61 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static efi_status_t __init phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map( return status; }
-void efi_get_time(struct timespec *now) +void efi_get_time(struct timespec64 *now) { efi_status_t status; efi_time_t eft; @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ void efi_get_time(struct timespec *now) if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) pr_err("Oops: efitime: can't read time!\n");
- now->tv_sec = mktime(eft.year, eft.month, eft.day, eft.hour, - eft.minute, eft.second); + now->tv_sec = mktime64(eft.year, eft.month, eft.day, eft.hour, + eft.minute, eft.second); now->tv_nsec = 0; }
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h index acb6adace01e..dca8810d6b49 100644 --- a/include/linux/efi.h +++ b/include/linux/efi.h @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ extern u64 efi_mem_desc_end(efi_memory_desc_t *md); extern int efi_mem_desc_lookup(u64 phys_addr, efi_memory_desc_t *out_md); extern void efi_initialize_iomem_resources(struct resource *code_resource, struct resource *data_resource, struct resource *bss_resource); -extern void efi_get_time(struct timespec *now); +extern void efi_get_time(struct timespec64 *now); extern void efi_reserve_boot_services(void); extern int efi_get_fdt_params(struct efi_fdt_params *params); extern struct kobject *efi_kobj;
On Fri, 17 Jun, at 04:51:29PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Nothing calls the efi_get_time function on x86, but it does suffer from the 32-bit time_t overflow in 2038.
To avoid that if anyone starts calling it, this changes the function to use timespec64 and mktime64 instead.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
The obvious alternative would be to remove the function, I'll send that patch as well, so you can pick one or the other.
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 6 +++--- include/linux/efi.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Looks good, thanks Arnd!