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ntp: Safeguard against time_constant overflow
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Using syzkaller with the recently reintroduced signed integer overflow
sanitizer produces this UBSAN report:

UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../kernel/time/ntp.c:738:18
9223372036854775806 + 4 cannot be represented in type 'long'
Call Trace:
 handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0
 __do_adjtimex+0x1236/0x1440
 do_adjtimex+0x2be/0x740

The user supplied time_constant value is incremented by four and then
clamped to the operating range.

Before commit eea83d8 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update") the user
supplied value was sanity checked to be in the operating range. That change
removed the sanity check and relied on clamping after incrementing which
does not work correctly when the user supplied value is in the overflow
zone of the '+ 4' operation.

The operation requires CAP_SYS_TIME and the side effect of the overflow is
NTP getting out of sync.

Similar to the fixups for time_maxerror and time_esterror, clamp the user
space supplied value to the operating range.

[ tglx: Switch to clamping ]

Fixes: eea83d8 ("ntp: NTP4 user space bits update")
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240517-b4-sio-ntp-c-v2-1-f3a80096f36f@google.com
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/352
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Justin Stitt authored and Thomas Gleixner committed Aug 5, 2024
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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions kernel/time/ntp.c
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Expand Up @@ -733,11 +733,10 @@ static inline void process_adjtimex_modes(const struct __kernel_timex *txc,
time_esterror = clamp(txc->esterror, 0, NTP_PHASE_LIMIT);

if (txc->modes & ADJ_TIMECONST) {
time_constant = txc->constant;
time_constant = clamp(txc->constant, 0, MAXTC);
if (!(time_status & STA_NANO))
time_constant += 4;
time_constant = min(time_constant, (long)MAXTC);
time_constant = max(time_constant, 0l);
time_constant = clamp(time_constant, 0, MAXTC);
}

if (txc->modes & ADJ_TAI &&
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