[GIT PULL] time/ntp fix

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Feb 20 2015 - 08:44:28 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: 29183a70b0b828500816bd794b3fe192fce89f73 ntp: Fixup adjtimex freq validation on 32-bit systems

An adjtimex interface regression fix for 32-bit systems.

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
John Stultz (1):
ntp: Fixup adjtimex freq validation on 32-bit systems


kernel/time/ntp.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index 4b585e0fdd22..0f60b08a4f07 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -633,10 +633,14 @@ int ntp_validate_timex(struct timex *txc)
if ((txc->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) && (!capable(CAP_SYS_TIME)))
return -EPERM;

- if (txc->modes & ADJ_FREQUENCY) {
- if (LONG_MIN / PPM_SCALE > txc->freq)
+ /*
+ * Check for potential multiplication overflows that can
+ * only happen on 64-bit systems:
+ */
+ if ((txc->modes & ADJ_FREQUENCY) && (BITS_PER_LONG == 64)) {
+ if (LLONG_MIN / PPM_SCALE > txc->freq)
return -EINVAL;
- if (LONG_MAX / PPM_SCALE < txc->freq)
+ if (LLONG_MAX / PPM_SCALE < txc->freq)
return -EINVAL;
}

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