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[PATCH v2] Ensure mktime sets errno on error (bug 23789)


Posix mandates that mktime set errno to EOVERFLOW on error, but the
glibc mktime wasn't doing it so far.

Make __mktime_internal set errno=EOVERFLOW on failures to convert, and
make mktime handle errno=EOVERFLOW from __mktime_internal.

Also, add a test to prevent future regressions.

The test was run through 'make check' on i686-linux-gnu,
then the fix was added and 'make check' run again.

        * time/Makefile: Add bug-mktime4.
	* time/bug-mktime4.c: New file.
	* time/mktime.c
	(__mktime_internal): Set errno to EOVERFLOW on error.
	(mktime): Check for errors from __tzset() or from
	__mktime_internal().
---
History:
- v2:
  - __mktime_internal: set errno to EOVERFLOW upon failure.
  - mktime: detect failure from __tzset and __mktime_internal by clearing
    errno before call and checking it after. Final errno is as follows:
    - errno set by __mktime_internal if there was one;
    - otherwise, 0 if __mktime_internal returned a non-failure -1;
    - otherwise, errno set by __tzset if there was one;
    - otherwise, value of errno on entry in mktime.
- v1:
  - mktime: set errno to EOVERFLOW if __mktime_internal returns -1

Notes:
- v1 erroneously took any return value of -1 as a sign of error, regardless
  to whether errno was 0 or not; v2 handles the case where __mktime_internal
  return -1 as a correct value.
- an alternative design was considered where every function called,
  directly or indirectly, from mktime would have been made to return a
  failure status but not change errno (and wrappers created to provide
  these function's original behavior). The change was too extensive, and
  had a high risk of breaking some behavior, so the "save/restore errno"
  approach was preferred.
- timegm() automatically benefits from this change too, i.e., it now
  reports failures properly with errno=EOVERFLOW.
- __tzset may set errno (e.g. to ENOENT) and then __mktime may overwrite
  this with errno=EOVERFLOW (when failing) or errno=0 (when return valid
  -1). However, that was already the case also before the patch.
 time/Makefile      |  2 +-
 time/bug-mktime4.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 time/mktime.c      | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 time/bug-mktime4.c

diff --git a/time/Makefile b/time/Makefile
index ec3e39dcea..743bd99f18 100644
--- a/time/Makefile
+++ b/time/Makefile
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ tests	:= test_time clocktest tst-posixtz tst-strptime tst_wcsftime \
 	   tst-getdate tst-mktime tst-mktime2 tst-ftime_l tst-strftime \
 	   tst-mktime3 tst-strptime2 bug-asctime bug-asctime_r bug-mktime1 \
 	   tst-strptime3 bug-getdate1 tst-strptime-whitespace tst-ftime \
-	   tst-tzname tst-y2039
+	   tst-tzname tst-y2039 bug-mktime4
 
 include ../Rules
 
diff --git a/time/bug-mktime4.c b/time/bug-mktime4.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dd1e0c76bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/time/bug-mktime4.c
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#include <time.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+static int
+do_test (void)
+{
+  struct tm tm = { .tm_year = INT_MIN, .tm_mon = INT_MIN, .tm_mday = INT_MIN,
+		    .tm_hour = INT_MIN, .tm_min = INT_MIN, .tm_sec = INT_MIN };
+  errno = 0;
+  time_t tt = mktime (&tm);
+  if (tt != -1)
+    {
+      printf ("mktime() should have returned -1, returned %ld\n", (long int) tt);
+      return 1;
+    }
+  if (errno != EOVERFLOW)
+    {
+      printf ("mktime() returned -1, errno should be %d (EOVERFLOW) but is %d (%s)\n", EOVERFLOW, errno, strerror(errno));
+      return 1;
+    }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+#define TEST_FUNCTION do_test ()
+#include "../test-skeleton.c"
diff --git a/time/mktime.c b/time/mktime.c
index 00f0dec6b4..36b35824ff 100644
--- a/time/mktime.c
+++ b/time/mktime.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 # define LEAP_SECONDS_POSSIBLE 1
 #endif
 
+#include <errno.h>
 #include <time.h>
 
 #include <limits.h>
@@ -435,7 +436,10 @@ __mktime_internal (struct tm *tp,
 	 useful than returning -1.  */
       goto offset_found;
     else if (--remaining_probes == 0)
-      return -1;
+      {
+	__set_errno (EOVERFLOW);
+	return -1;
+      }
 
   /* We have a match.  Check whether tm.tm_isdst has the requested
      value, if any.  */
@@ -507,7 +511,10 @@ __mktime_internal (struct tm *tp,
       if (INT_ADD_WRAPV (t, sec_adjustment, &t)
 	  || ! (mktime_min <= t && t <= mktime_max)
 	  || ! convert_time (convert, t, &tm))
-	return -1;
+	{
+	  __set_errno (EOVERFLOW);
+	  return -1;
+	}
     }
 
   *tp = tm;
@@ -522,18 +529,41 @@ __mktime_internal (struct tm *tp,
 time_t
 mktime (struct tm *tp)
 {
+  time_t result;
+  /* When __mktime_internal() returns -1, we need to know it it has set
+   * errno (real error) or not (just returning valid time_t value -1),
+   * so we beed to clear errno before calling __mktime_internal().
+   * But we also need to preserve errno if __mktime_internal() does not
+   * modify it, so we need to back up its current value.
+   * Ditto for __tzset().  */
+  int errno_from_tzset;
+  int errno_before_mktime = errno;
+
   /* POSIX.1 8.1.1 requires that whenever mktime() is called, the
      time zone names contained in the external variable 'tzname' shall
      be set as if the tzset() function had been called.  */
+  errno = 0;
   __tzset ();
+  /* record errno from __tzset() but do not fail now.  */
+  errno_from_tzset = errno;
 
+  errno = 0;
 # if defined _LIBC || NEED_MKTIME_WORKING
   static mktime_offset_t localtime_offset;
-  return __mktime_internal (tp, __localtime_r, &localtime_offset);
+  result = __mktime_internal (tp, __localtime_r, &localtime_offset);
 # else
 #  undef mktime
-  return mktime (tp);
+  result = mktime (tp);
 # endif
+  if (result == -1 && errno == 0)
+    return result;
+  else if (errno != 0)
+    return -1;
+  else if (errno_from_tzset != 0)
+    __set_errno(errno_from_tzset);
+  else
+    __set_errno(errno_before_mktime);
+  return result;
 }
 #endif /* _LIBC || NEED_MKTIME_WORKING || NEED_MKTIME_WINDOWS */
 
-- 
2.17.1


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