Merge tag 'v3.10.67' into linux-linaro-lsk

This is the 3.10.67 stable release

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index d5d229b2e5af..7d532a32ff3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -173,6 +173,19 @@ extern void getboottime(struct timespec *ts);
 extern void monotonic_to_bootbased(struct timespec *ts);
 extern void get_monotonic_boottime(struct timespec *ts);
 
+static inline bool timeval_valid(const struct timeval *tv)
+{
+	/* Dates before 1970 are bogus */
+	if (tv->tv_sec < 0)
+		return false;
+
+	/* Can't have more microseconds then a second */
+	if (tv->tv_usec < 0 || tv->tv_usec >= USEC_PER_SEC)
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 extern struct timespec timespec_trunc(struct timespec t, unsigned gran);
 extern int timekeeping_valid_for_hres(void);
 extern u64 timekeeping_max_deferment(void);