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TTY: fix atime/mtime regression
authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:48:53 +0000 (13:48 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 May 2013 15:56:36 +0000 (08:56 -0700)
commit061bd83c6fd1c22fbcf0357d4b7e306ba5ea8591
treed7618831ff4d039872cbf587845d09d01e9419b3
parent6dd4ef3051173062350a4c53a2c4212d3f052e0c
TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

commit 37b7f3c76595e23257f61bd80b223de8658617ee upstream.

In commit b0de59b5733d ("TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write")
we removed timestamps from tty inodes to fix a security issue and waited
if something breaks.  Well, 'w', the utility to find out logged users
and their inactivity time broke.  It shows that users are inactive since
the time they logged in.

To revert to the old behaviour while still preventing attackers to
guess the password length, we update the timestamps in one-minute
intervals by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_io.c