ntp: Limit TAI-UTC offset
commit41164dd56336bcccab95f0f0077bbbefa7891246
authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:47:13 +0000 (18 17:47 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Aug 2019 07:34:47 +0000 (4 09:34 +0200)
tree3a0cff6f585d73903ab2bb1ce9831bc3fc7446dc
parentb4a4a5610104a0f69dceb156b19c2df9b218776e
ntp: Limit TAI-UTC offset

[ Upstream commit d897a4ab11dc8a9fda50d2eccc081a96a6385998 ]

Don't allow the TAI-UTC offset of the system clock to be set by adjtimex()
to a value larger than 100000 seconds.

This prevents an overflow in the conversion to int, prevents the CLOCK_TAI
clock from getting too far ahead of the CLOCK_REALTIME clock, and it is
still large enough to allow leap seconds to be inserted at the maximum rate
currently supported by the kernel (once per day) for the next ~270 years,
however unlikely it is that someone can survive a catastrophic event which
slowed down the rotation of the Earth so much.

Reported-by: Weikang shi <swkhack@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190618154713.20929-1-mlichvar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/time/ntp.c