base-files: sysfixtime exclude dnsmasq.time
authorKevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
Thu, 5 May 2016 11:34:49 +0000 (12:34 +0100)
committerJo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Thu, 19 May 2016 08:28:18 +0000 (10:28 +0200)
commit2b1556d3e03e69f54f960f0372f12b709fac2f52
treeeaccf5bbd0c14690b888aaf5f0ff8728c7a41b6f
parent85a59127a77801b12b8c5d3e4f53d19b5a3b2871
base-files: sysfixtime exclude dnsmasq.time

dnsmasq maintains dnsmasq.time across reboots and uses it as a means of
determining if current time is good enough to validate dnssec time
stamps.  By including /etc/dnsmasq.time as a time source for sysfixtime,
the mechanism was effectively defeated because time was set to the
last time that dnsmasq considered current even though that time is in
the past.  Since that time is out of date, dns(sec) resolution would
fail thus defeating any ntp based mechanisms for setting the clock
correctly.

In theory the process is defeated by any files in /etc that are newer
than /etc/dnsmasq.time however dnsmasq now updates the file's timestamp
on process TERM so hopefully /etc/dnsmasq.time is the latest file
timestamp in /etc as part of LEDE shutdown/reboot.

Either way, including /etc/dnsmasq.time as a time source for
sysfixtime is not helpful.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysfixtime