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    initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive · 4c9d410f
    Nicolas Schier authored
    Cpio format reserves 8 bytes for an ASCII representation of a time_t timestamp.
    While 2106-02-07 06:28:15 UTC (time_t = 0xffffffff) is still some years in the
    future, a poorly chosen date string for KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP, converted into
    seconds since the epoch, might lead to exceeded cpio timestamp limits that
    result in a broken cpio archive.  Add timestamp checks to prevent overrun of
    the 8-byte cpio header field.
    
    My colleague Thomas Kühnel discovered the behaviour, when we accidentally fed
    SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP as is: some timestamps (e.g.
    1607420928 = 2021-12-08 9:48:48 UTC) will be interpreted by `date` as a valid
    date specification of science fictional times (here: year 160742).  Even though
    this is bad input for KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP, it should not break the initramfs
    cpio format.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
    Cc: Thomas Kühnel <thomas.kuehnel@avm.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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