Patch "scsi: smartpqi: fix time handling" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

scsi: smartpqi: fix time handling

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
scsi-smartpqi-fix-time-handling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:03:52 +0100
Subject: scsi: smartpqi: fix time handling

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

commit ed10858eadd4988260c6bc7d75fc25176342b5a7 upstream.

When we have turned off RTC support, the smartpqi driver fails to build:

ERROR: "rtc_time64_to_tm" [drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi.ko] undefined!

This is easily avoided by using the generic 'struct tm' based helper rather than the RTC specific one. While fixing this, I noticed that even though the driver uses time64_t for storing seconds, it gets them from the old 32-bit struct timeval. To address this, we can simplify the code by calling ktime_get_real_seconds() directly.

---
 drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c |    8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

@@ -533,8 +533,7 @@ static int pqi_write_current_time_to_hos
 	size_t buffer_length;
 	time64_t local_time;
 	unsigned int year;
-	struct timeval time;
-	struct rtc_time tm;
+	struct tm tm;
 
 	buffer_length = sizeof(*buffer);
 

@@ -551,9 +550,8 @@ static int pqi_write_current_time_to_hos
 	put_unaligned_le16(sizeof(buffer->time),
 		&buffer->time_length);
 
-	do_gettimeofday(&time);
-	local_time = time.tv_sec - (sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60);
-	rtc_time64_to_tm(local_time, &tm);
+	local_time = ktime_get_real_seconds();
+	time64_to_tm(local_time, -sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60, &tm);
 	year = tm.tm_year + 1900;
 
 	buffer->time[0] = bin2bcd(tm.tm_hour);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/scsi-smartpqi-fix-time-handling.patch queue-4.9/leds-ktd2692-avoid-harmless-maybe-uninitialized-warning.patch