ntp: Allow TAI-UTC offset to be set to zero
authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:48:33 +0000 (10:48 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 9 May 2019 08:46:58 +0000 (10:46 +0200)
commitfdc6bae940ee9eb869e493990540098b8c0fd6ab
treeeeb6693623ce486b97ff1deb18ab2394614ec56e
parentf3d964673b2f1c5d5c68c77273efcf7103eed03b
ntp: Allow TAI-UTC offset to be set to zero

The ADJ_TAI adjtimex mode sets the TAI-UTC offset of the system clock.
It is typically set by NTP/PTP implementations and it is automatically
updated by the kernel on leap seconds. The initial value is zero (which
applications may interpret as unknown), but this value cannot be set by
adjtimex. This limitation seems to go back to the original "nanokernel"
implementation by David Mills.

Change the ADJ_TAI check to accept zero as a valid TAI-UTC offset in
order to allow setting it back to the initial value.

Fixes: 153b5d054ac2 ("ntp: support for TAI")
Suggested-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.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: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417084833.7401-1-mlichvar@redhat.com
kernel/time/ntp.c