[PATCH] ptp: Limit time setting of PTP clocks

From: Miroslav Lichvar
Date: Mon Sep 09 2024 - 09:12:13 EST


Networking drivers implementing PTP clocks and kernel socket code
handling hardware timestamps use the 64-bit signed ktime_t type counting
nanoseconds. When a PTP clock reaches the maximum value in year 2262,
the timestamps returned to applications will overflow into year 1667.
The same thing happens when injecting a large offset with
clock_adjtime(ADJ_SETOFFSET).

The commit 7a8e61f84786 ("timekeeping: Force upper bound for setting
CLOCK_REALTIME") limited the maximum accepted value setting the system
clock to 30 years before the maximum representable value (i.e. year
2232) to avoid the overflow, assuming the system will not run for more
than 30 years.

Enforce the same limit for PTP clocks. Don't allow negative values and
values closer than 30 years to the maximum value. Drivers may implement
an even lower limit if the hardware registers cannot represent the whole
interval between years 1970 and 2262 in the required resolution.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
index c56cd0f63909..bd7c5f534be6 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ static int ptp_clock_settime(struct posix_clock *pc, const struct timespec64 *tp
return -EBUSY;
}

+ if (!timespec64_valid_settod(tp))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
return ptp->info->settime64(ptp->info, tp);
}

@@ -129,7 +132,7 @@ static int ptp_clock_adjtime(struct posix_clock *pc, struct __kernel_timex *tx)
ops = ptp->info;

if (tx->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) {
- struct timespec64 ts;
+ struct timespec64 ts, ts2;
ktime_t kt;
s64 delta;

@@ -139,7 +142,14 @@ static int ptp_clock_adjtime(struct posix_clock *pc, struct __kernel_timex *tx)
if (!(tx->modes & ADJ_NANO))
ts.tv_nsec *= 1000;

- if ((unsigned long) ts.tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC)
+ /* Make sure the offset is valid */
+ err = ptp_clock_gettime(pc, &ts2);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ ts2 = timespec64_add(ts2, ts);
+
+ if ((unsigned long) ts.tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC ||
+ !timespec64_valid_settod(&ts2))
return -EINVAL;

kt = timespec64_to_ktime(ts);
--
2.46.0