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<title>ntp: Safeguard against time_constant overflow</title>
<updated>2024-08-19T03:33:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin Stitt</name>
<email>justinstitt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-17T00:47:10+00:00</published>
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commit 06c03c8edce333b9ad9c6b207d93d3a5ae7c10c0 upstream.

Using syzkaller with the recently reintroduced signed integer overflow
sanitizer produces this UBSAN report:

UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../kernel/time/ntp.c:738:18
9223372036854775806 + 4 cannot be represented in type 'long'
Call Trace:
 handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0
 __do_adjtimex+0x1236/0x1440
 do_adjtimex+0x2be/0x740

The user supplied time_constant value is incremented by four and then
clamped to the operating range.

Before commit eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update") the user
supplied value was sanity checked to be in the operating range. That change
removed the sanity check and relied on clamping after incrementing which
does not work correctly when the user supplied value is in the overflow
zone of the '+ 4' operation.

The operation requires CAP_SYS_TIME and the side effect of the overflow is
NTP getting out of sync.

Similar to the fixups for time_maxerror and time_esterror, clamp the user
space supplied value to the operating range.

[ tglx: Switch to clamping ]

Fixes: eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update")
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240517-b4-sio-ntp-c-v2-1-f3a80096f36f@google.com
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/352
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 06c03c8edce333b9ad9c6b207d93d3a5ae7c10c0 upstream.

Using syzkaller with the recently reintroduced signed integer overflow
sanitizer produces this UBSAN report:

UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../kernel/time/ntp.c:738:18
9223372036854775806 + 4 cannot be represented in type 'long'
Call Trace:
 handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0
 __do_adjtimex+0x1236/0x1440
 do_adjtimex+0x2be/0x740

The user supplied time_constant value is incremented by four and then
clamped to the operating range.

Before commit eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update") the user
supplied value was sanity checked to be in the operating range. That change
removed the sanity check and relied on clamping after incrementing which
does not work correctly when the user supplied value is in the overflow
zone of the '+ 4' operation.

The operation requires CAP_SYS_TIME and the side effect of the overflow is
NTP getting out of sync.

Similar to the fixups for time_maxerror and time_esterror, clamp the user
space supplied value to the operating range.

[ tglx: Switch to clamping ]

Fixes: eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update")
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240517-b4-sio-ntp-c-v2-1-f3a80096f36f@google.com
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/352
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ntp: Clamp maxerror and esterror to operating range</title>
<updated>2024-08-19T03:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin Stitt</name>
<email>justinstitt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-17T20:22:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 87d571d6fb77ec342a985afa8744bb9bb75b3622 ]

Using syzkaller alongside the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow
sanitizer spits out this report:

UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../kernel/time/ntp.c:461:16
9223372036854775807 + 500 cannot be represented in type 'long'
Call Trace:
 handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0
 second_overflow+0x2d6/0x500
 accumulate_nsecs_to_secs+0x60/0x160
 timekeeping_advance+0x1fe/0x890
 update_wall_time+0x10/0x30

time_maxerror is unconditionally incremented and the result is checked
against NTP_PHASE_LIMIT, but the increment itself can overflow, resulting
in wrap-around to negative space.

Before commit eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update") the user
supplied value was sanity checked to be in the operating range. That change
removed the sanity check and relied on clamping in handle_overflow() which
does not work correctly when the user supplied value is in the overflow
zone of the '+ 500' operation.

The operation requires CAP_SYS_TIME and the side effect of the overflow is
NTP getting out of sync.

Miroslav confirmed that the input value should be clamped to the operating
range and the same applies to time_esterror. The latter is not used by the
kernel, but the value still should be in the operating range as it was
before the sanity check got removed.

Clamp them to the operating range.

[ tglx: Changed it to clamping and included time_esterror ]

Fixes: eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update")
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240517-b4-sio-ntp-usec-v2-1-d539180f2b79@google.com
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/354
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
[ cast things to long long to fix compiler warnings - gregkh ]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 87d571d6fb77ec342a985afa8744bb9bb75b3622 ]

Using syzkaller alongside the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow
sanitizer spits out this report:

UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../kernel/time/ntp.c:461:16
9223372036854775807 + 500 cannot be represented in type 'long'
Call Trace:
 handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0
 second_overflow+0x2d6/0x500
 accumulate_nsecs_to_secs+0x60/0x160
 timekeeping_advance+0x1fe/0x890
 update_wall_time+0x10/0x30

time_maxerror is unconditionally incremented and the result is checked
against NTP_PHASE_LIMIT, but the increment itself can overflow, resulting
in wrap-around to negative space.

Before commit eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update") the user
supplied value was sanity checked to be in the operating range. That change
removed the sanity check and relied on clamping in handle_overflow() which
does not work correctly when the user supplied value is in the overflow
zone of the '+ 500' operation.

The operation requires CAP_SYS_TIME and the side effect of the overflow is
NTP getting out of sync.

Miroslav confirmed that the input value should be clamped to the operating
range and the same applies to time_esterror. The latter is not used by the
kernel, but the value still should be in the operating range as it was
before the sanity check got removed.

Clamp them to the operating range.

[ tglx: Changed it to clamping and included time_esterror ]

Fixes: eea83d896e31 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update")
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240517-b4-sio-ntp-usec-v2-1-d539180f2b79@google.com
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/354
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
[ cast things to long long to fix compiler warnings - gregkh ]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ntp/y2038: Remove incorrect time_t truncation</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T07:13:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-08T20:34:24+00:00</published>
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A cast to 'time_t' was accidentally left in place during the
conversion of __do_adjtimex() to 64-bit timestamps, so the
resulting value is incorrectly truncated.

Remove the cast so the 64-bit time gets propagated correctly.

Fixes: ead25417f82e ("timex: use __kernel_timex internally")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191108203435.112759-2-arnd@arndb.de

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A cast to 'time_t' was accidentally left in place during the
conversion of __do_adjtimex() to 64-bit timestamps, so the
resulting value is incorrectly truncated.

Remove the cast so the 64-bit time gets propagated correctly.

Fixes: ead25417f82e ("timex: use __kernel_timex internally")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191108203435.112759-2-arnd@arndb.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntp: Limit TAI-UTC offset</title>
<updated>2019-06-22T09:28:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miroslav Lichvar</name>
<email>mlichvar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-18T15:47:13+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;swkhack@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190618154713.20929-1-mlichvar@redhat.com

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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 &lt;swkhack@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190618154713.20929-1-mlichvar@redhat.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T18:00:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-16T18:00:20+00:00</published>
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Pull time fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A TIA adjtimex interface extension, and a POSIX compliance ABI fix for
  timespec64 users"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ntp: Allow TAI-UTC offset to be set to zero
  y2038: Make CONFIG_64BIT_TIME unconditional
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Pull time fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A TIA adjtimex interface extension, and a POSIX compliance ABI fix for
  timespec64 users"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ntp: Allow TAI-UTC offset to be set to zero
  y2038: Make CONFIG_64BIT_TIME unconditional
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntp: Allow TAI-UTC offset to be set to zero</title>
<updated>2019-05-09T08:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miroslav Lichvar</name>
<email>mlichvar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-17T08:48:33+00:00</published>
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The ADJ_TAI adjtimex mode sets the TAI-UTC offset of the system clock.
It is typically set by NTP/PTP implementations and it is automatically
updated by the kernel on leap seconds. The initial value is zero (which
applications may interpret as unknown), but this value cannot be set by
adjtimex. This limitation seems to go back to the original "nanokernel"
implementation by David Mills.

Change the ADJ_TAI check to accept zero as a valid TAI-UTC offset in
order to allow setting it back to the initial value.

Fixes: 153b5d054ac2 ("ntp: support for TAI")
Suggested-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417084833.7401-1-mlichvar@redhat.com

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The ADJ_TAI adjtimex mode sets the TAI-UTC offset of the system clock.
It is typically set by NTP/PTP implementations and it is automatically
updated by the kernel on leap seconds. The initial value is zero (which
applications may interpret as unknown), but this value cannot be set by
adjtimex. This limitation seems to go back to the original "nanokernel"
implementation by David Mills.

Change the ADJ_TAI check to accept zero as a valid TAI-UTC offset in
order to allow setting it back to the initial value.

Fixes: 153b5d054ac2 ("ntp: support for TAI")
Suggested-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417084833.7401-1-mlichvar@redhat.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntp: Audit NTP parameters adjustment</title>
<updated>2019-04-15T22:14:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnacek</name>
<email>omosnace@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-10T09:14:20+00:00</published>
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Emit an audit record every time selected NTP parameters are modified
from userspace (via adjtimex(2) or clock_adjtime(2)). These parameters
may be used to indirectly change system clock, and thus their
modifications should be audited.

Such events will now generate records of type AUDIT_TIME_ADJNTPVAL
containing the following fields:
  - op -- which value was adjusted:
    - offset -- corresponding to the time_offset variable
    - freq   -- corresponding to the time_freq variable
    - status -- corresponding to the time_status variable
    - adjust -- corresponding to the time_adjust variable
    - tick   -- corresponding to the tick_usec variable
    - tai    -- corresponding to the timekeeping's TAI offset
  - old -- the old value
  - new -- the new value

Example records:

type=TIME_ADJNTPVAL msg=audit(1530616044.507:7): op=status old=64 new=8256
type=TIME_ADJNTPVAL msg=audit(1530616044.511:11): op=freq old=0 new=49180377088000

The records of this type will be associated with the corresponding
syscall records.

An overview of parameter changes that can be done via do_adjtimex()
(based on information from Miroslav Lichvar) and whether they are
audited:
  __timekeeping_set_tai_offset() -- sets the offset from the
                                    International Atomic Time
                                    (AUDITED)
  NTP variables:
    time_offset -- can adjust the clock by up to 0.5 seconds per call
                   and also speed it up or slow down by up to about
                   0.05% (43 seconds per day) (AUDITED)
    time_freq -- can speed up or slow down by up to about 0.05%
                 (AUDITED)
    time_status -- can insert/delete leap seconds and it also enables/
                   disables synchronization of the hardware real-time
                   clock (AUDITED)
    time_maxerror, time_esterror -- change error estimates used to
                                    inform userspace applications
                                    (NOT AUDITED)
    time_constant -- controls the speed of the clock adjustments that
                     are made when time_offset is set (NOT AUDITED)
    time_adjust -- can temporarily speed up or slow down the clock by up
                   to 0.05% (AUDITED)
    tick_usec -- a more extreme version of time_freq; can speed up or
                 slow down the clock by up to 10% (AUDITED)

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Emit an audit record every time selected NTP parameters are modified
from userspace (via adjtimex(2) or clock_adjtime(2)). These parameters
may be used to indirectly change system clock, and thus their
modifications should be audited.

Such events will now generate records of type AUDIT_TIME_ADJNTPVAL
containing the following fields:
  - op -- which value was adjusted:
    - offset -- corresponding to the time_offset variable
    - freq   -- corresponding to the time_freq variable
    - status -- corresponding to the time_status variable
    - adjust -- corresponding to the time_adjust variable
    - tick   -- corresponding to the tick_usec variable
    - tai    -- corresponding to the timekeeping's TAI offset
  - old -- the old value
  - new -- the new value

Example records:

type=TIME_ADJNTPVAL msg=audit(1530616044.507:7): op=status old=64 new=8256
type=TIME_ADJNTPVAL msg=audit(1530616044.511:11): op=freq old=0 new=49180377088000

The records of this type will be associated with the corresponding
syscall records.

An overview of parameter changes that can be done via do_adjtimex()
(based on information from Miroslav Lichvar) and whether they are
audited:
  __timekeeping_set_tai_offset() -- sets the offset from the
                                    International Atomic Time
                                    (AUDITED)
  NTP variables:
    time_offset -- can adjust the clock by up to 0.5 seconds per call
                   and also speed it up or slow down by up to about
                   0.05% (43 seconds per day) (AUDITED)
    time_freq -- can speed up or slow down by up to about 0.05%
                 (AUDITED)
    time_status -- can insert/delete leap seconds and it also enables/
                   disables synchronization of the hardware real-time
                   clock (AUDITED)
    time_maxerror, time_esterror -- change error estimates used to
                                    inform userspace applications
                                    (NOT AUDITED)
    time_constant -- controls the speed of the clock adjustments that
                     are made when time_offset is set (NOT AUDITED)
    time_adjust -- can temporarily speed up or slow down the clock by up
                   to 0.05% (AUDITED)
    tick_usec -- a more extreme version of time_freq; can speed up or
                 slow down the clock by up to 10% (AUDITED)

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timex: use __kernel_timex internally</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T23:13:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-03T05:44:21+00:00</published>
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struct timex is not y2038 safe.
Replace all uses of timex with y2038 safe __kernel_timex.

Note that struct __kernel_timex is an ABI interface definition.
We could define a new structure based on __kernel_timex that
is only available internally instead. Right now, there isn't
a strong motivation for this as the structure is isolated to
a few defined struct timex interfaces and such a structure would
be exactly the same as struct timex.

The patch was generated by the following coccinelle script:

virtual patch

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
expression e;
@@
(
- struct timex ts;
+ struct __kernel_timex ts;
|
- struct timex ts = {};
+ struct __kernel_timex ts = {};
|
- struct timex ts = e;
+ struct __kernel_timex ts = e;
|
- struct timex *ts;
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts;
|
(memset \| copy_from_user \| copy_to_user \)(...,
- sizeof(struct timex))
+ sizeof(struct __kernel_timex))
)

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
identifier fn;
@@
fn(...,
- struct timex *ts,
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts,
...) {
...
}

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
identifier fn;
@@
fn(...,
- struct timex *ts) {
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts) {
...
}

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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struct timex is not y2038 safe.
Replace all uses of timex with y2038 safe __kernel_timex.

Note that struct __kernel_timex is an ABI interface definition.
We could define a new structure based on __kernel_timex that
is only available internally instead. Right now, there isn't
a strong motivation for this as the structure is isolated to
a few defined struct timex interfaces and such a structure would
be exactly the same as struct timex.

The patch was generated by the following coccinelle script:

virtual patch

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
expression e;
@@
(
- struct timex ts;
+ struct __kernel_timex ts;
|
- struct timex ts = {};
+ struct __kernel_timex ts = {};
|
- struct timex ts = e;
+ struct __kernel_timex ts = e;
|
- struct timex *ts;
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts;
|
(memset \| copy_from_user \| copy_to_user \)(...,
- sizeof(struct timex))
+ sizeof(struct __kernel_timex))
)

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
identifier fn;
@@
fn(...,
- struct timex *ts,
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts,
...) {
...
}

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
identifier fn;
@@
fn(...,
- struct timex *ts) {
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts) {
...
}

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'y2038-for-4.21' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T20:45:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b12a9124eeb71d766a3e3eb594ebbb3fefc66902'/>
<id>b12a9124eeb71d766a3e3eb594ebbb3fefc66902</id>
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Pull y2038 updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "More syscalls and cleanups

  This concludes the main part of the system call rework for 64-bit
  time_t, which has spread over most of year 2018, the last six system
  calls being

    - ppoll
    - pselect6
    - io_pgetevents
    - recvmmsg
    - futex
    - rt_sigtimedwait

  As before, nothing changes for 64-bit architectures, while 32-bit
  architectures gain another entry point that differs only in the layout
  of the timespec structure. Hopefully in the next release we can wire
  up all 22 of those system calls on all 32-bit architectures, which
  gives us a baseline version for glibc to start using them.

  This does not include the clock_adjtime, getrusage/waitid, and
  getitimer/setitimer system calls. I still plan to have new versions of
  those as well, but they are not required for correct operation of the
  C library since they can be emulated using the old 32-bit time_t based
  system calls.

  Aside from the system calls, there are also a few cleanups here,
  removing old kernel internal interfaces that have become unused after
  all references got removed. The arch/sh cleanups are part of this,
  there were posted several times over the past year without a reaction
  from the maintainers, while the corresponding changes made it into all
  other architectures"

* tag 'y2038-for-4.21' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground:
  timekeeping: remove obsolete time accessors
  vfs: replace current_kernel_time64 with ktime equivalent
  timekeeping: remove timespec_add/timespec_del
  timekeeping: remove unused {read,update}_persistent_clock
  sh: remove board_time_init() callback
  sh: remove unused rtc_sh_get/set_time infrastructure
  sh: sh03: rtc: push down rtc class ops into driver
  sh: dreamcast: rtc: push down rtc class ops into driver
  y2038: signal: Add compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait_time64
  y2038: signal: Add sys_rt_sigtimedwait_time32
  y2038: socket: Add compat_sys_recvmmsg_time64
  y2038: futex: Add support for __kernel_timespec
  y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c
  io_pgetevents: use __kernel_timespec
  pselect6: use __kernel_timespec
  ppoll: use __kernel_timespec
  signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()
  signal: Add set_user_sigmask()
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Pull y2038 updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "More syscalls and cleanups

  This concludes the main part of the system call rework for 64-bit
  time_t, which has spread over most of year 2018, the last six system
  calls being

    - ppoll
    - pselect6
    - io_pgetevents
    - recvmmsg
    - futex
    - rt_sigtimedwait

  As before, nothing changes for 64-bit architectures, while 32-bit
  architectures gain another entry point that differs only in the layout
  of the timespec structure. Hopefully in the next release we can wire
  up all 22 of those system calls on all 32-bit architectures, which
  gives us a baseline version for glibc to start using them.

  This does not include the clock_adjtime, getrusage/waitid, and
  getitimer/setitimer system calls. I still plan to have new versions of
  those as well, but they are not required for correct operation of the
  C library since they can be emulated using the old 32-bit time_t based
  system calls.

  Aside from the system calls, there are also a few cleanups here,
  removing old kernel internal interfaces that have become unused after
  all references got removed. The arch/sh cleanups are part of this,
  there were posted several times over the past year without a reaction
  from the maintainers, while the corresponding changes made it into all
  other architectures"

* tag 'y2038-for-4.21' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground:
  timekeeping: remove obsolete time accessors
  vfs: replace current_kernel_time64 with ktime equivalent
  timekeeping: remove timespec_add/timespec_del
  timekeeping: remove unused {read,update}_persistent_clock
  sh: remove board_time_init() callback
  sh: remove unused rtc_sh_get/set_time infrastructure
  sh: sh03: rtc: push down rtc class ops into driver
  sh: dreamcast: rtc: push down rtc class ops into driver
  y2038: signal: Add compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait_time64
  y2038: signal: Add sys_rt_sigtimedwait_time32
  y2038: socket: Add compat_sys_recvmmsg_time64
  y2038: futex: Add support for __kernel_timespec
  y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c
  io_pgetevents: use __kernel_timespec
  pselect6: use __kernel_timespec
  ppoll: use __kernel_timespec
  signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()
  signal: Add set_user_sigmask()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: remove unused {read,update}_persistent_clock</title>
<updated>2018-12-18T15:13:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T12:15:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=926617889dc8383a120c66a2ecf7959a69f96950'/>
<id>926617889dc8383a120c66a2ecf7959a69f96950</id>
<content type='text'>
After arch/sh has removed the last reference to these functions,
we can remove them completely and just rely on the 64-bit time_t
based versions. This cleans up a rather ugly use of __weak
functions.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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<pre>
After arch/sh has removed the last reference to these functions,
we can remove them completely and just rely on the 64-bit time_t
based versions. This cleans up a rather ugly use of __weak
functions.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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