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From: Deep Shah <deepshah146@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Deep Shah <deepshah146@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] ptp: reject frequency adjustments that overflow scaled_ppm_to_ppb()
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:09:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260712040922.6403-2-deepshah146@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260712040922.6403-1-deepshah146@gmail.com>

ptp_clock_adjtime() converts tx->freq to ppb with scaled_ppm_to_ppb()
and rejects the request if it exceeds ops->max_adj.  On 64-bit systems
that conversion computes (1 + ppm) * 125 in s64, which can overflow for
a large tx->freq and wrap the result back into [-max_adj, max_adj].  The
check then passes and the original out-of-range value is handed to
->adjfine().

For example tx->freq = 147573952589676412 makes (1 + ppm) * 125 equal
2^64 + 9, which wraps to ppb == 0 and is accepted.

Reject the request with -ERANGE if either the addition or the
multiplication overflows.  This hardens the max_adj sanity check and is
not a security fix.  It follows up commit 475b92f93216 ("ptp: improve
max_adj check against unreasonable values"), which fixed the analogous
s32 narrowing but not this overflow.

Fixes: d39a743511cd ("ptp: validate the requested frequency adjustment.")
Signed-off-by: Deep Shah <deepshah146@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
index d6f54ccaf93b..f83aa44b0a74 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
 #include <linux/posix-clock.h>
 #include <linux/pps_kernel.h>
 #include <linux/property.h>
@@ -159,7 +160,18 @@ static int ptp_clock_adjtime(struct posix_clock *pc, struct __kernel_timex *tx)
 		delta = ktime_to_ns(kt);
 		err = ops->adjtime(ops, delta);
 	} else if (tx->modes & ADJ_FREQUENCY) {
-		long ppb = scaled_ppm_to_ppb(tx->freq);
+		long ppb;
+		s64 tmp;
+
+		/*
+		 * scaled_ppm_to_ppb() multiplies (1 + freq) by 125 in s64;
+		 * reject a ->freq large enough to overflow that, which could
+		 * otherwise wrap the result back into the max_adj range.
+		 */
+		if (check_add_overflow(tx->freq, 1, &tmp) ||
+		    check_mul_overflow(tmp, 125, &tmp))
+			return -ERANGE;
+		ppb = scaled_ppm_to_ppb(tx->freq);
 		if (ppb > ops->max_adj || ppb < -ops->max_adj)
 			return -ERANGE;
 		err = ops->adjfine(ops, tx->freq);
-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-12  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-12  4:09 [PATCH net 0/2] ptp: fix scaled_ppm_to_ppb() overflow bypassing the max_adj check Deep Shah
2026-07-12  4:09 ` Deep Shah [this message]
2026-07-12  4:09 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: ptp: add a regression test for the frequency adjustment overflow Deep Shah
2026-07-12 12:16 ` [PATCH net 0/2] ptp: fix scaled_ppm_to_ppb() overflow bypassing the max_adj check Vadim Fedorenko

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