[pve-devel] [PATCH kernel] Backport ntp clock_adjtime fix from 4.5

Fabian Grünbichler f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com
Fri Apr 15 09:05:03 CEST 2016


this broke NTP synchronization with systemd-timesyncd for
all time deltas where a jump was necessary (>= 0.4s).
---
Tested using nested Proxmox VE with "Use local time for RTC" option set.

 Makefile                                          |  1 +
 ntp-Fix-ADJ_SETOFFSET-being-used-w-ADJ_NANO.patch | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 ntp-Fix-ADJ_SETOFFSET-being-used-w-ADJ_NANO.patch

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e6a25e1..a01946b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ ${KERNEL_SRC}/README ${KERNEL_CFG_ORG}: ${KERNELSRCTAR}
 	cd ${KERNEL_SRC}; patch -p1 <../override_for_missing_acs_capabilities.patch
 	#cd ${KERNEL_SRC}; patch -p1 <../vhost-net-extend-device-allocation-to-vmalloc.patch
 	cd ${KERNEL_SRC}; patch -p1 <../apparmor-fix-bad--include-path.patch
+	cd ${KERNEL_SRC}; patch -p1 <../ntp-Fix-ADJ_SETOFFSET-being-used-w-ADJ_NANO.patch
 	sed -i ${KERNEL_SRC}/Makefile -e 's/^EXTRAVERSION.*$$/EXTRAVERSION=${EXTRAVERSION}/'
 	touch $@
 
diff --git a/ntp-Fix-ADJ_SETOFFSET-being-used-w-ADJ_NANO.patch b/ntp-Fix-ADJ_SETOFFSET-being-used-w-ADJ_NANO.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ee4abe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ntp-Fix-ADJ_SETOFFSET-being-used-w-ADJ_NANO.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+From: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
+
+BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566465
+
+Recently, in commit 37cf4dc3370f I forgot to check if the timeval being passed
+was actually a timespec (as is signaled with ADJ_NANO).
+
+This resulted in that patch breaking ADJ_SETOFFSET users who set
+ADJ_NANO, by rejecting valid timespecs that were compared with
+valid timeval ranges.
+
+This patch addresses this by checking for the ADJ_NANO flag and
+using the timepsec check instead in that case.
+
+Reported-by: Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
+Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>
+Fixes: 37cf4dc3370f "time: Verify time values in adjtimex ADJ_SETOFFSET to avoid overflow"
+Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
+Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
+Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran at gmail.com>
+Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit at redhat.com>
+Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>
+Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453417415-19110-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
+(cherry picked from commit dd4e17ab704269bce71402285f5e8b9ac24b1eff)
+Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
+---
+ kernel/time/ntp.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
+ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
+index d7654e2..ab86177 100644
+--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
++++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
+@@ -679,8 +679,18 @@ int ntp_validate_timex(struct timex *txc)
+ 		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TIME))
+ 			return -EPERM;
+ 
+-		if (!timeval_inject_offset_valid(&txc->time))
+-			return -EINVAL;
++		if (txc->modes & ADJ_NANO) {
++			struct timespec ts;
++
++			ts.tv_sec = txc->time.tv_sec;
++			ts.tv_nsec = txc->time.tv_usec;
++			if (!timespec_inject_offset_valid(&ts))
++				return -EINVAL;
++
++		} else {
++			if (!timeval_inject_offset_valid(&txc->time))
++				return -EINVAL;
++		}
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	/*
+-- 
+1.9.1
-- 
2.1.4





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