[PATCH 1/2] ntp: Fix ADJ_SETOFFSET being used w/ ADJ_NANO

From: John Stultz
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 18:03:59 EST


Recently, in commit 37cf4dc3370f
("time: Verify time values in adjtimex ADJ_SETOFFSET to avoid overflow")
I forgot to check if the timeval being passed was actually a
timespec (as is signaled with ADJ_NANO).

This resulted in that patch breaking ADJ_SETOFFSET users who set
ADJ_NANO, by rejecting valid timespecs that were compared with
valid timeval ranges.

This patch addresses this by checking for the ADJ_NANO flag and
using the timepsec check instead in that case.

Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/ntp.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index 36f2ca0..6df8927 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -685,8 +685,18 @@ int ntp_validate_timex(struct timex *txc)
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TIME))
return -EPERM;

- if (!timeval_inject_offset_valid(&txc->time))
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (txc->modes & ADJ_NANO) {
+ struct timespec ts;
+
+ ts.tv_sec = txc->time.tv_sec;
+ ts.tv_nsec = txc->time.tv_usec;
+ if (!timespec_inject_offset_valid(&ts))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ } else {
+ if (!timeval_inject_offset_valid(&txc->time))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
}

/*
--
1.9.1