ntp: Limit TAI-UTC offset
authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:47:13 +0000 (17:47 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sat, 22 Jun 2019 09:28:53 +0000 (11:28 +0200)
commitd897a4ab11dc8a9fda50d2eccc081a96a6385998
treefade4e9ee1de5f30818462dc1f36e3d75dfd6e9b
parent141e1ecda356bb0034027a9acb949e97a963ba16
ntp: Limit TAI-UTC offset

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