initramfs: use time64_t timestamps
authorArnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:31:04 +0000 (15:31 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:10:04 +0000 (16:10 -0800)
The cpio format uses a 32-bit number to encode file timestamps, which
breaks initramfs support in 2038.  This reinterprets the timestamp as
unsigned, to give us another 68 years and avoids breaking until 2106.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Deepa Dinamani <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]>
Cc: Lokesh Vutla <[email protected]>
Cc: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
init/initramfs.c

index 7046feffef6b5852102a8c021afcaeb8420d3a74..7e99a00389429d79281ac2663a6fb7a4bedaef1d 100644 (file)
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static void __init free_hash(void)
        }
 }
 
-static long __init do_utime(char *filename, time_t mtime)
+static long __init do_utime(char *filename, time64_t mtime)
 {
        struct timespec64 t[2];
 
@@ -125,10 +125,10 @@ static __initdata LIST_HEAD(dir_list);
 struct dir_entry {
        struct list_head list;
        char *name;
-       time_t mtime;
+       time64_t mtime;
 };
 
-static void __init dir_add(const char *name, time_t mtime)
+static void __init dir_add(const char *name, time64_t mtime)
 {
        struct dir_entry *de = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dir_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!de)
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static void __init dir_utime(void)
        }
 }
 
-static __initdata time_t mtime;
+static __initdata time64_t mtime;
 
 /* cpio header parsing */
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static void __init parse_header(char *s)
        uid = parsed[2];
        gid = parsed[3];
        nlink = parsed[4];
-       mtime = parsed[5];
+       mtime = parsed[5]; /* breaks in y2106 */
        body_len = parsed[6];
        major = parsed[7];
        minor = parsed[8];