On Thu 19-10-17 16:47:48, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> isofs uses a 'char' variable to load the number of years since
> 1900 for an inode timestamp. On architectures that use a signed
> char type by default, this results in an invalid date for
> anything beyond 2027.
>
> This changes the function argument to a 'u8' array, which
> is defined the same way on all architectures, and unambiguously
> lets us use years until 2155.
>
> This should be backported to all kernels that might still be
> in use by that date.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
...
> -int iso_date(char * p, int flag)
> +int iso_date(u8 *p, int flag)
> {
> int year, month, day, hour, minute, second, tz;
> int crtime;
>
> - year = p[0];
> + year = (int)(u8)p[0];
The cast seems unnecessary now?
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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