ntp: Limit TAI-UTC offset
Don't allow the TAI-UTC offset of the system clock to be set by adjtimex() to a value larger than 100000 seconds. This prevents an overflow in the conversion to int, prevents the CLOCK_TAI clock from getting too far ahead of the CLOCK_REALTIME clock, and it is still large enough to allow leap seconds to be inserted at the maximum rate currently supported by the kernel (once per day) for the next ~270 years, however unlikely it is that someone can survive a catastrophic event which slowed down the rotation of the Earth so much. Reported-by: Weikang shi <swkhack@gmail.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: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190618154713.20929-1-mlichvar@redhat.com
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