[alsa-devel] [Y2038] [PATCH v7 6/9] ALSA: Avoid using timespec for struct snd_timer_tread

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:14 AM Ben Hutchings
<ben.hutchings at codethink.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 22:20 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> [...]
> > +static int snd_timer_user_tread(void __user *argp, struct snd_timer_user *tu,
> > +                             unsigned int cmd, bool compat)
> > +{
> > +     int __user *p = argp;
> > +     int xarg, old_tread;
> > +
> > +     if (tu->timeri) /* too late */
> > +             return -EBUSY;
> > +     if (get_user(xarg, p))
> > +             return -EFAULT;
> > +
> > +     old_tread = tu->tread;
> > +
> > +     if (!xarg)
> > +             tu->tread = TREAD_FORMAT_NONE;
> > +     else if (cmd == SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_TREAD64 ||
> > +              (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BITS) && !compat))
>
> This needs to check for CONFIG_64BIT not CONFIG_64BITS.

Fixed now, good catch!

> > @@ -2145,14 +2202,34 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
> > +             case TREAD_FORMAT_NONE:
> >                       if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->queue[qhead],
> >                                        sizeof(struct snd_timer_read)))
> >                               err = -EFAULT;
> > +                     break;
> > +             default:
> > +                     err = -ENOTSUPP;
> [...]
>
> This is not a valid error code for returning to user-space, but this
> case should be impossible so I don't think it matters.

Agreed. Maybe it should also WARN_ON(1), as there getting here
would indicate a bug in the kernel.

    Arnd