FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ntp: Remove invalid cast in time offset math" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x f5807b0606da7ac7c1b74a386b22134ec7702d05
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2024120626-macaroni-copy-e7b8@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From f5807b0606da7ac7c1b74a386b22134ec7702d05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Dalmas <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:16:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ntp: Remove invalid cast in time offset math

Due to an unsigned cast, adjtimex() returns the wrong offest when using ADJ_MICRO and the offset is negative. In this case a small negative offset returns approximately 4.29 seconds (~ 2^32/1000 milliseconds) due to the unsigned cast of the negative offset.

This cast was added when the kernel internal struct timex was changed to use type long long for the time offset value to address the problem of a 64bit/32bit division on 32bit systems.

The correct cast would have been (s32), which is correct as time_offset can only be in the range of [INT_MIN..INT_MAX] because the shift constant used for calculating it is 32. But that's non-obvious.

Remove the cast and use div_s64() to cure the issue.

[ tglx: Fix white space damage, use div_s64() and amend the change log ]

index b550ebe0f03b..163e7a2033b6 100644
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ int __do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *txc, const struct timespec64 *ts,
 
 		txc->offset = shift_right(ntpdata->time_offset * NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ, NTP_SCALE_SHIFT);
 		if (!(ntpdata->time_status & STA_NANO))
-			txc->offset = (u32)txc->offset / NSEC_PER_USEC;
+			txc->offset = div_s64(txc->offset, NSEC_PER_USEC);
 	}
 
 	result = ntpdata->time_state;