The patch titled rtc/nuc900: fix checking of args during time-setting has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rtc-nuc900-fix-checking-of-args-during-time-setting.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: rtc/nuc900: fix checking of args during time-setting From: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@xxxxxxxxx> When a user application wants to set the rtc time, the RTC subsystem takes advantage of 'rtc_valid_tm(tm)' to check 'rtc_time *tm' value validity, it make sure the 'tm->tm_year' is larger than 70,so if '70< tm_year < 100', the '(settm->tm_year - 100)' will be negative. ' Setting the negative value to hardware register will be invalid, so I add the 'if' condition to make sure set a valid value to register. Signed-off-by: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-nuc900.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-nuc900.c~rtc-nuc900-fix-checking-of-args-during-time-setting drivers/rtc/rtc-nuc900.c --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-nuc900.c~rtc-nuc900-fix-checking-of-args-during-time-setting +++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-nuc900.c @@ -116,12 +116,18 @@ static void nuc900_rtc_bcd2bin(unsigned rtc_valid_tm(tm); } -static void nuc900_rtc_bin2bcd(struct rtc_time *settm, +static void nuc900_rtc_bin2bcd(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *settm, struct nuc900_bcd_time *gettm) { gettm->bcd_mday = bin2bcd(settm->tm_mday) << 0; gettm->bcd_mon = bin2bcd(settm->tm_mon) << 8; - gettm->bcd_year = bin2bcd(settm->tm_year - 100) << 16; + + if (settm->tm_year < 100) { + dev_warn(dev, "The year will be between 1970-1999, right?\n"); + gettm->bcd_year = bin2bcd(settm->tm_year) << 16; + } else { + gettm->bcd_year = bin2bcd(settm->tm_year - 100) << 16; + } gettm->bcd_sec = bin2bcd(settm->tm_sec) << 0; gettm->bcd_min = bin2bcd(settm->tm_min) << 8; @@ -176,7 +182,7 @@ static int nuc900_rtc_set_time(struct de unsigned long val; int *err; - nuc900_rtc_bin2bcd(tm, &gettm); + nuc900_rtc_bin2bcd(dev, tm, &gettm); err = check_rtc_access_enable(rtc); if (IS_ERR(err)) @@ -211,7 +217,7 @@ static int nuc900_rtc_set_alarm(struct d unsigned long val; int *err; - nuc900_rtc_bin2bcd(&alrm->time, &tm); + nuc900_rtc_bin2bcd(dev, &alrm->time, &tm); err = check_rtc_access_enable(rtc); if (IS_ERR(err)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mcuos.com@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch nuc900-rtc-change-the-waiting-for-device-ready-implement.patch rtc-nuc900-fix-checking-of-args-during-time-setting.patch drivers-rtc-rtc-pcf8563c-remove-unused-struct.patch rtc-pxa-remove-unused-field.patch rtc-m48t59-kfreenull-is-ok.patch rtc-rtc-mxc-remove-six-unused-fields.patch rtc-fixes-and-new-functionality-for-fm3130.patch rtc-fixes-and-new-functionality-for-fm3130-fix.patch rtc-pxa-remove-unnecessary-private-ops-ioctl.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html