From 52bfb36050c8529d9031d2c2513b281a360922ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Stultz Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:42:19 +0100 Subject: time: add ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ Michael Kerrisk reported that a long standing bug in the adjtimex() system call causes glibc's adjtime(3) function to deliver the wrong results if 'delta' is NULL. add the ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ API detail, which will be used by glibc to fix this API compatibility bug. Also see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761 [ mingo@elte.hu: added patch description and made it backwards compatible ] NOTE: the new flag is defined 0xa001 so that it returns -EINVAL on older kernels - this way glibc can use it safely. Suggested by Ulrich Drepper. Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/ntp.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c index 14a2ecf2b31..e64efaf957e 100644 --- a/kernel/time/ntp.c +++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c @@ -249,10 +249,12 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc) /* Now we validate the data before disabling interrupts */ - if ((txc->modes & ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) == ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) + if ((txc->modes & ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) == ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) { /* singleshot must not be used with any other mode bits */ - if (txc->modes != ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) + if (txc->modes != ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT && + txc->modes != ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ) return -EINVAL; + } if (txc->modes != ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT && (txc->modes & ADJ_OFFSET)) /* adjustment Offset limited to +- .512 seconds */ @@ -372,7 +374,8 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc) leave: if ((time_status & (STA_UNSYNC|STA_CLOCKERR)) != 0) result = TIME_ERROR; - if ((txc->modes & ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) == ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) + if ((txc->modes == ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) || + (txc->modes == ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ)) txc->offset = save_adjust; else txc->offset = ((long)shift_right(time_offset, SHIFT_UPDATE)) * -- cgit v1.2.3