Since tm->tm_year is the offset relative to 1900, it needs to check for positive value to avoid overflow in YEARS_REG register. The system will hang at the following stage on the next boot when overflow has occurred. [ 2.221192] systemd[1]: Time has been changed This patch fixes the above hanging issue by adding bounds checking. Signed-off-by: Taiyi Wu <taiyity.wu@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: SZ Lin (林上智) <sz.lin@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-tps65910.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-tps65910.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-tps65910.c index d0244d7979fc..6be9f7bb0f1b 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-tps65910.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-tps65910.c @@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ static int tps65910_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) struct tps65910 *tps = dev_get_drvdata(dev->parent); int ret; + if ((tm->tm_year - 100) < 0) { + dev_err(dev, "the requested year %d is unsupported\n", + 1900 + tm->tm_year); + return -EINVAL; + } + rtc_data[0] = bin2bcd(tm->tm_sec); rtc_data[1] = bin2bcd(tm->tm_min); rtc_data[2] = bin2bcd(tm->tm_hour); -- 2.15.1