Re: [PATCH v2] ntp: remove accidental integer wrap-around

[Thomas Gleixner]

Justin!

On Fri, May 24 2024 at 15:43, Justin Stitt wrote:
> I appreciate you reviewing my patches.

You're welcome!

> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 5:09 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So instead of turning the clock back, we might be better off to actually
>> put the normalization in place at the assignment:
>>
>>     time_maxerror = min(max(0, txc->maxerror), NTP_PHASE_LIMIT);
>
> A saturating resolution strategy is one that I've taken with some of
> my other overflow patches.
>
> ... but how about: clamp(txc->maxerror, 0, NTP_PHASE_LIMIT)

Duh. You are right, but that's too obvious :)

Thanks,

        tglx