Re: [PATCH] time_adjust cleared before use

[Jim Houston]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 19:22 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Jim Houston wrote:
> > I notice that the code which implements adjtime clears
> > the time_adjust value before using it.  The attached 
> > patch makes the obvious fix.

> Acked-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jim Houston <jim.houston@xxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index 47195fa..3afeaa3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ void second_overflow(void)
 			time_adjust += MAX_TICKADJ;
 			tick_length -= MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED;
 		} else {
-			time_adjust = 0;
 			tick_length += (s64)(time_adjust * NSEC_PER_USEC /
 					     HZ) << TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT;
+			time_adjust = 0;
 		}
 	}
 }


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