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time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs
authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:56:19 +0000 (14:56 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 17:39:48 +0000 (10:39 -0700)
commit7df3d033efb005c6018512933078566cd6f49463
tree21987ac09b9214225def53cf7bc810c359fe4eea
parent25d97e9ecea68839ac7d55e8ccd381111254bfb2
time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs

commit 4e8b14526ca7fb046a81c94002c1c43b6fdf0e9b upstream.

Unexpected behavior could occur if the time is set to a value large
enough to overflow a 64bit ktime_t (which is something larger then the
year 2262).

Also unexpected behavior could occur if large negative offsets are
injected via adjtimex.

So this patch improves the sanity check timekeeping inputs by
improving the timespec_valid() check, and then makes better use of
timespec_valid() to make sure we don't set the time to an invalid
negative value or one that overflows ktime_t.

Note: This does not protect from setting the time close to overflowing
ktime_t and then letting natural accumulation cause the overflow.

Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344454580-17031-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/ktime.h
include/linux/time.h
kernel/time/timekeeping.c