From: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d8794ac20a299b647ba9958f6d657051fc51a540 upstream. As Andrew pointed out, it will make sense that the PTP core checked timespec64 struct's tv_sec and tv_nsec range before calling ptp->info->settime64(). As the man manual of clock_settime() said, if tp.tv_sec is negative or tp.tv_nsec is outside the range [0..999,999,999], it should return EINVAL, which include dynamic clocks which handles PTP clock, and the condition is consistent with timespec64_valid(). As Thomas suggested, timespec64_valid() only check the timespec is valid, but not ensure that the time is in a valid range, so check it ahead using timespec64_valid_strict() in pc_clock_settime() and return -EINVAL if not valid. There are some drivers that use tp->tv_sec and tp->tv_nsec directly to write registers without validity checks and assume that the higher layer has checked it, which is dangerous and will benefit from this, such as hclge_ptp_settime(), igb_ptp_settime_i210(), _rcar_gen4_ptp_settime(), and some drivers can remove the checks of itself. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 0606f422b453 ("posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks") Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241009072302.1754567-2-ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c @@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ static int pc_clock_settime(clockid_t id goto out; } + if (!timespec64_valid_strict(ts)) + return -EINVAL; + if (cd.clk->ops.clock_settime) err = cd.clk->ops.clock_settime(cd.clk, ts); else Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.11/posix-clock-fix-missing-timespec64-check-in-pc_clock_settime.patch queue-6.11/net-microchip-vcap-api-fix-memory-leaks-in-vcap_api_encode_rule_test.patch