From: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4e8c11b6b3f0b6a283e898344f154641eda94266 upstream.
Even after commit e1d7ba873555 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic
isn't positive") it is still possible to make wall_to_monotonic positive
by running the following code:
int main(void)
{
struct timespec time;
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &time);
time.tv_nsec = 0;
clock_settime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &time);
return 0;
}
The reason is that the second parameter of timespec64_compare(), ts_delta,
may be unnormalized because the delta is calculated with an open coded
substraction which causes the comparison of tv_sec to yield the wrong
result:
wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec = 900000000 }
ts_delta = { .tv_sec = -9, .tv_nsec = -900000000 }
That makes timespec64_compare() claim that wall_to_monotonic < ts_delta,
but actually the result should be wall_to_monotonic > ts_delta.
After normalization, the result of timespec64_compare() is correct because
the tv_sec comparison is not longer misleading:
wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec = 900000000 }
ts_delta = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec = 100000000 }
Use timespec64_sub() to ensure that ts_delta is normalized, which fixes the
issue.
Fixes: e1d7ba873555 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive")
Signed-off-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211213135727.1656662-1-liaoyu15@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1236,8 +1236,7 @@ int do_settimeofday64(const struct times
timekeeping_forward_now(tk);
xt = tk_xtime(tk);
- ts_delta.tv_sec = ts->tv_sec - xt.tv_sec;
- ts_delta.tv_nsec = ts->tv_nsec - xt.tv_nsec;
+ ts_delta = timespec64_sub(*ts, xt);
if (timespec64_compare(&tk->wall_to_monotonic, &ts_delta) > 0) {
ret = -EINVAL;
