linux-kernel - [tip:timers/core] time: Fix sign bug in NTP mult overflow warning

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Message-ID: <tip-cb2aa63469f81426c7406227be70b628b42f7a05@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:21:35 -0800
From:	tip-bot for John Stultz <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com, pang.xunlei@...aro.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, john.stultz@...aro.org
Subject: [tip:timers/core] time: Fix sign bug in NTP mult overflow warning

Commit-ID:  cb2aa63469f81426c7406227be70b628b42f7a05
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/cb2aa63469f81426c7406227be70b628b42f7a05
Author:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
AuthorDate: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:35:45 -0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:18:34 +0100

time: Fix sign bug in NTP mult overflow warning

In commit 6067dc5a8c2b ("time: Avoid possible NTP adjustment
mult overflow") a new check was added to watch for adjustments
that could cause a mult overflow.

Unfortunately the check compares a signed with unsigned value
and ignored the case where the adjustment was negative, which
causes spurious warn-ons on some systems (and seems like it
would result in problematic time adjustments there as well, due
to the early return).

Thus this patch adds a check to make sure the adjustment is
positive before we check for an overflow, and resovles the issue
in my testing.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Debugged-by: pang.xunlei <pang.xunlei@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1416890145-30048-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 29a7d67..2dc0646 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ static __always_inline void timekeeping_apply_adjustment(struct timekeeper *tk,
 	 *
 	 * XXX - TODO: Doc ntp_error calculation.
 	 */
-	if (tk->tkr.mult + mult_adj < mult_adj) {
+	if ((mult_adj > 0) && (tk->tkr.mult + mult_adj < mult_adj)) {
 		/* NTP adjustment caused clocksource mult overflow */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
 		return;
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