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timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive
commit 4e8c11b upstream. Even after commit e1d7ba8 ("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: e1d7ba8 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive") Signed-off-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211213135727.1656662-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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kernel/time/timekeeping.c

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@@ -1310,8 +1310,7 @@ int do_settimeofday64(const struct timespec64 *ts)
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timekeeping_forward_now(tk);
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xt = tk_xtime(tk);
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ts_delta.tv_sec = ts->tv_sec - xt.tv_sec;
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ts_delta.tv_nsec = ts->tv_nsec - xt.tv_nsec;
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ts_delta = timespec64_sub(*ts, xt);
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if (timespec64_compare(&tk->wall_to_monotonic, &ts_delta) > 0) {
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ret = -EINVAL;

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