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    timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive · 4e8c11b6
    Yu Liao authored
    Even after commit e1d7ba87 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic
    isn't positive") it is still possible to make wall_to_monotonic positive
    by running the following code:
    
        int main(void)
        {
            struct timespec time;
    
            clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &time);
            time.tv_nsec = 0;
            clock_settime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &time);
            return 0;
        }
    
    The reason is that the second parameter of timespec64_compare(), ts_delta,
    may be unnormalized because the delta is calculated with an open coded
    substraction which causes the comparison of tv_sec to yield the wrong
    result:
    
      wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  900000000 }
      ts_delta 	    = { .tv_sec =  -9, .tv_nsec = -900000000 }
    
    That makes timespec64_compare() claim that wall_to_monotonic < ts_delta,
    but actually the result should be wall_to_monotonic > ts_delta.
    
    After normalization, the result of timespec64_compare() is correct because
    the tv_sec comparison is not longer misleading:
    
      wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  900000000 }
      ts_delta 	    = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  100000000 }
    
    Use timespec64_sub() to ensure that ts_delta is normalized, which fixes the
    issue.
    
    Fixes: e1d7ba87 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211213135727.1656662-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com
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