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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] posix-timers: Preserve return value in clock_adjtime32()" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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]>.

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greg k-h

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

From 2d036dfa5f10df9782f5278fc591d79d283c1fad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chen Jun <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 03:04:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] posix-timers: Preserve return value in clock_adjtime32()

The return value on success (>= 0) is overwritten by the return value of put_old_timex32(). That works correct in the fault case, but is wrong for the success case where put_old_timex32() returns 0.

Just check the return value of put_old_timex32() and return -EFAULT in case it is not zero.

[ tglx: Massage changelog ]

Fixes 3a4d44b61625 ("ntp: Move adjtimex related compat syscalls to native counterparts")
kernel/time/posix-timers.c +2 -2
index bf540f5a4115..dd5697d7347b 100644
@@ -1191,8 +1191,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clock_adjtime32, clockid_t, which_clock,
 
 	err = do_clock_adjtime(which_clock, &ktx);
 
-	if (err >= 0)
-		err = put_old_timex32(utp, &ktx);
+	if (err >= 0 && put_old_timex32(utp, &ktx))
+		return -EFAULT;
 
 	return err;
 }