This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ntp: Read reference time only once to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ntp-read-reference-time-only-once.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8e4573a49f37687504fff95d8733b62bdcf3afb0 Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 11 15:17:42 2024 +0200 ntp: Read reference time only once [ Upstream commit 136bccbc2e78d3cd0bd8831e4c5a4509c0ddd945 ] The reference time is required twice in ntp_update_offset(). It will not change in the meantime as the calling code holds the timekeeper lock. Read it only once and store it into a local variable. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240911-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-ptp-ntp-v1-6-2d52f4e13476@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Stable-dep-of: f5807b0606da ("ntp: Remove invalid cast in time offset math") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c index ef758aafdfd54..477cb08062bc5 100644 --- a/kernel/time/ntp.c +++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c @@ -283,9 +283,8 @@ static inline s64 ntp_update_offset_fll(s64 offset64, long secs) static void ntp_update_offset(long offset) { - s64 freq_adj; - s64 offset64; - long secs; + s64 freq_adj, offset64; + long secs, real_secs; if (!(time_status & STA_PLL)) return; @@ -303,11 +302,12 @@ static void ntp_update_offset(long offset) * Select how the frequency is to be controlled * and in which mode (PLL or FLL). */ - secs = (long)(__ktime_get_real_seconds() - time_reftime); + real_secs = __ktime_get_real_seconds(); + secs = (long)(real_secs - time_reftime); if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD)) secs = 0; - time_reftime = __ktime_get_real_seconds(); + time_reftime = real_secs; offset64 = offset; freq_adj = ntp_update_offset_fll(offset64, secs);