From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120124023924.386300194@clark.kroah.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:33:45 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ben Hutchings , Jonathan Nieder , Mark Brown , Marcelo Roberto Jimenez , Thomas Gleixner , John Stultz , Alessandro Zummo Subject: [005/129] drivers/rtc/interface.c: fix alarm rollover when day or month is out-of-range In-Reply-To: <20120124024041.GA18422@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ Content-Length: 1761 Lines: 46 From: Ben Hutchings commit e74a8f2edb92cb690b467cea0ab652c509e9f624 upstream. Commit f44f7f96a20a ("RTC: Initialize kernel state from RTC") introduced a potential infinite loop. If an alarm time contains a wildcard month and an invalid day (> 31), or a wildcard year and an invalid month (>= 12), the loop searching for the next matching date will never terminate. Treat the invalid values as wildcards. Fixes , Reported-by: leo weppelman Reported-by: "P. van Gaans" Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Marcelo Roberto Jimenez Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/rtc/interface.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c @@ -228,11 +228,11 @@ int __rtc_read_alarm(struct rtc_device * alarm->time.tm_hour = now.tm_hour; /* For simplicity, only support date rollover for now */ - if (alarm->time.tm_mday == -1) { + if (alarm->time.tm_mday < 1 || alarm->time.tm_mday > 31) { alarm->time.tm_mday = now.tm_mday; missing = day; } - if (alarm->time.tm_mon == -1) { + if ((unsigned)alarm->time.tm_mon >= 12) { alarm->time.tm_mon = now.tm_mon; if (missing == none) missing = month;