From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: [GIT pull] timers/urgent for v6.16
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:58:14 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <175361748735.557480.6049747546698820190.tglx@xen13> (raw)
Linus,
please pull the latest timers/urgent branch from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-2025-07-27
up to: 67c632b4a7fb: timekeeping: Zero initialize system_counterval when querying time from phc drivers
A single fix for the PTP systemcounter mechanism:
The rework of this mechanism added a 'use_nsec' member to struct
system_counterval. get_device_system_crosststamp() instantiates that
struct on the stack and hands a pointer to the driver callback.
Only the drivers which set use_nsec to true, initialize that field, but
all others ignore it. As get_device_system_crosststamp() does not
initialize the struct, the use_nsec field contains random stack content
in those cases. That causes a miscalulation usually resulting in a
failing range check in the best case.
Initialize the structure before handing it to the drivers to cure that.
Thanks,
tglx
------------------>
Markus Blöchl (1):
timekeeping: Zero initialize system_counterval when querying time from phc drivers
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index a009c91f7b05..83c65f3afcca 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ int get_device_system_crosststamp(int (*get_time_fn)
struct system_time_snapshot *history_begin,
struct system_device_crosststamp *xtstamp)
{
- struct system_counterval_t system_counterval;
+ struct system_counterval_t system_counterval = {};
struct timekeeper *tk = &tk_core.timekeeper;
u64 cycles, now, interval_start;
unsigned int clock_was_set_seq = 0;
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