tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take four
authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:40:31 +0000 (18:40 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 9 May 2015 22:16:24 +0000 (23:16 +0100)
commit52220b428973e533ba074a818d65aee1f78a2618
tree2effd411d3e611fc3e4e26e59fddc6d7baab0ca4
parent6f0375cab8061d5b7ff5227327b36242a85aea14
tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take four

commit f0bf0bd07943bfde8f5ac39a32664810a379c7d3 upstream.

This problem was taken care of three times already in
b0de59b5733d18b0d1974a060860a8b5c1b36a2e (TTY: do not update
  atime/mtime on read/write),
37b7f3c76595e23257f61bd80b223de8658617ee (TTY: fix atime/mtime
  regression), and
b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde (tty: fix up atime/mtime
  mess, take three)

But it still misses one point. As John Paul correctly points out, we
do not care about setting date. If somebody ever changes wall
time backwards (by mistake for example), tty timestamps are never
updated until the original wall time passes.

So check the absolute difference of times and if it large than "8
seconds or so", always update the time. That means we will update
immediatelly when changing time. Ergo, CAP_SYS_TIME can foul the
check, but it was always that way.

Thanks John for serving me this so nicely debugged.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: John Paul Perry <john_paul.perry@alcatel-lucent.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/tty/tty_io.c