ntp: improve adjtimex frequency rounding

Change PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT so that it doesn't throw away any input bits
(19 is the amount of the factor 2 in PPM_SCALE), the output frequency
can then be calculated back to its input value, as the inverse divide
produce a slightly larger value, which is then correctly rounded by the
final shift.

Reported-by: Martin Ziegler <ziegler@uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index 450a45cb01c..ddb0465a6ba 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -406,9 +406,8 @@ adj_done:
         if (time_status & (STA_UNSYNC|STA_CLOCKERR))
                 result = TIME_ERROR;
 
-        txc->freq          = shift_right((s32)(time_freq >> PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT) *
-                                         (s64)PPM_SCALE_INV,
-                                         NTP_SCALE_SHIFT);
+        txc->freq          = shift_right((time_freq >> PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT) *
+                                         (s64)PPM_SCALE_INV, NTP_SCALE_SHIFT);
         txc->maxerror      = time_maxerror;
         txc->esterror      = time_esterror;
         txc->status        = time_status;