Merge pull request #18601 from muxi/fix-gettimeofday-oob

Add guard to the tv_nsec field of gpr_now return value

src/core/lib/gpr/time_posix.cc

@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ static gpr_timespec now_impl(gpr_clock_type clock) {
   now.clock_type = clock;
   switch (clock) {
     case GPR_CLOCK_REALTIME:
+      // gettimeofday(...) function may return with a value whose tv_usec is
+      // greater than 1e6 on iOS The case is resolved with the guard at end of
+      // this function.
       gettimeofday(&now_tv, nullptr);
       now.tv_sec = now_tv.tv_sec;
       now.tv_nsec = now_tv.tv_usec * 1000;
@@ -124,6 +127,16 @@ static gpr_timespec now_impl(gpr_clock_type clock) {
       abort();
   }
 
+  // Guard the tv_nsec field in valid range for all clock types
+  while (GPR_UNLIKELY(now.tv_nsec >= 1e9)) {
+    now.tv_sec++;
+    now.tv_nsec -= 1e9;
+  }
+  while (GPR_UNLIKELY(now.tv_nsec < 0)) {
+    now.tv_sec--;
+    now.tv_nsec += 1e9;
+  }
+
   return now;
 }
 #endif