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authorpang.xunlei <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>2014-11-18 19:15:18 +0800
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2014-11-21 11:59:58 -0800
commit90b6ce9c4066e0b2098dff65e52e6e7df1a51079 (patch)
treed92267d1b186332bdc827850e72c3f7a4b0b600b /kernel/time
parent04d9089086a8231ddc69a9f3f25e971a3c1d25e6 (diff)
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time: Provide y2038 safe mktime() replacement
As part of addressing "y2038 problem" for in-kernel uses, this patch adds safe mktime64() using time64_t. After this patch, mktime() is deprecated and all its call sites will be fixed using mktime64(), after that it can be removed. Signed-off-by: pang.xunlei <pang.xunlei@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/time.c20
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c
index a9ae20fb0b11..65015ff2f07c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time/time.c
@@ -304,7 +304,9 @@ struct timespec timespec_trunc(struct timespec t, unsigned gran)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(timespec_trunc);
-/* Converts Gregorian date to seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.
+/*
+ * mktime64 - Converts date to seconds.
+ * Converts Gregorian date to seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.
* Assumes input in normal date format, i.e. 1980-12-31 23:59:59
* => year=1980, mon=12, day=31, hour=23, min=59, sec=59.
*
@@ -314,15 +316,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(timespec_trunc);
* -year/100+year/400 terms, and add 10.]
*
* This algorithm was first published by Gauss (I think).
- *
- * WARNING: this function will overflow on 2106-02-07 06:28:16 on
- * machines where long is 32-bit! (However, as time_t is signed, we
- * will already get problems at other places on 2038-01-19 03:14:08)
*/
-unsigned long
-mktime(const unsigned int year0, const unsigned int mon0,
- const unsigned int day, const unsigned int hour,
- const unsigned int min, const unsigned int sec)
+time64_t mktime64(const unsigned int year0, const unsigned int mon0,
+ const unsigned int day, const unsigned int hour,
+ const unsigned int min, const unsigned int sec)
{
unsigned int mon = mon0, year = year0;
@@ -332,15 +329,14 @@ mktime(const unsigned int year0, const unsigned int mon0,
year -= 1;
}
- return ((((unsigned long)
+ return ((((time64_t)
(year/4 - year/100 + year/400 + 367*mon/12 + day) +
year*365 - 719499
)*24 + hour /* now have hours */
)*60 + min /* now have minutes */
)*60 + sec; /* finally seconds */
}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(mktime);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mktime64);
/**
* set_normalized_timespec - set timespec sec and nsec parts and normalize