Re: [PATCH] ntp: safeguard against time_constant overflow case

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, May 07 2024 at 22:03, Justin Stitt wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 11:02:17PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> > @@ -734,10 +737,10 @@ static inline void process_adjtimex_modes(const struct __kernel_timex *txc,
>> >
>> >         if (txc->modes & ADJ_TIMECONST) {
>> >                 time_constant = txc->constant;
>> > -               if (!(time_status & STA_NANO))
>> > -                       time_constant += 4;
>> > -               time_constant = min(time_constant, (long)MAXTC);
>> > -               time_constant = max(time_constant, 0l);
>> > +               if (!(time_status & STA_NANO) &&
>> > +                   unlikely(LONG_MAX - time_constant_inc >= time_constant))
>> > +                       time_constant += time_constant_inc;
>> > +               time_constant = clamp_t(long, time_constant, 0, MAXTC);
>> >         }
>> 
>> Overall, this looks fine. Though the time_status conditional is now a
>> little unwieldy.
>> 
>> I wonder if some sort of a helper like:
>>       time_constant = safe_add(time_constant, TIME_CONSTANT_INC, LONG_MAX);
>> 
>> Might make this a little easier to read?
>
> How about something like this:
>
> 	if (txc->modes & ADJ_TIMECONST) {
> 		if (!(time_status & STA_NANO))
> 			time_constant = clamp_t(long, txc->constant,
> 						-TIME_CONSTANT_INC,
> 						MAXTC - TIME_CONSTANT_INC) +
> 						TIME_CONSTANT_INC;
> 		else
> 			time_constant = clamp_t(long, txc->constant, 0, MAXTC);
> 	}
>
> We can remove the initial assignment and use some fancy clamps.

That's unreadable TBH.