Re: [PATCH] time: verify time values in adjtimex ADJ_SETOFFSET to avoid overflow

John Stultz
2015-12-07T20:24:01Z

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, John Stultz wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Richard Cochran
>> <richardcochran@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The overflow is a latent problem, and the patch should:
>> >
>> > 1. return error in case (txc->time.tv_usec >= USEC_PER_SEC)
>> > 2. remove the redundant test in timekeeping_inject_offset.
>>
>> So we probably want to keep the check in timekeeping_inject_offset()
>> since there can be other users as well of that function.
>>
>> But its probably cleanest to add a check in ntp_validate_timex()
>> instead of where this patch does it.
>
> So instead of open coding the checks on both sites, can we please have
> an inline function with proper comments why time.tv_sec can be
> negative, something like adjtimex_timeval_is_valid() or such.

Right. So the only gotcha with this is that adjtimex wants to check
that the timeval is valid (before we convert it to a timespec), but
timekeeping_inject_offset wants to make sure the timespec is valid. So
one nice inline function won't cut it.

But I can add a timespec_inject_offset_valid() and
timeval_inject_offset_valid() which will do the same basic check for
each type.

thanks
-john