diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index ea3559f0b3f2cbac7e0373f51df471c133c23479..9072df83de1f994b002be9f306df40922089104d 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -76,9 +76,25 @@ extern unsigned long mktime(const unsigned int year, const unsigned int mon,
 			    const unsigned int min, const unsigned int sec);
 
 extern void set_normalized_timespec(struct timespec *ts, time_t sec, s64 nsec);
+
+/*
+ * timespec_add_safe assumes both values are positive and checks
+ * for overflow. It will return TIME_T_MAX if the reutrn would be
+ * smaller then either of the arguments.
+ */
 extern struct timespec timespec_add_safe(const struct timespec lhs,
 					 const struct timespec rhs);
 
+
+static inline struct timespec timespec_add(struct timespec lhs,
+						struct timespec rhs)
+{
+	struct timespec ts_delta;
+	set_normalized_timespec(&ts_delta, lhs.tv_sec + rhs.tv_sec,
+				lhs.tv_nsec + rhs.tv_nsec);
+	return ts_delta;
+}
+
 /*
  * sub = lhs - rhs, in normalized form
  */
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index caf8d4d4f5c873dffbbc124c62cff08d84a0eb0d..623fe3d504dc2b175de1b3877917d510b6ae5539 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -579,9 +579,9 @@ static int timekeeping_resume(struct sys_device *dev)
 
 	if (timespec_compare(&ts, &timekeeping_suspend_time) > 0) {
 		ts = timespec_sub(ts, timekeeping_suspend_time);
-		xtime = timespec_add_safe(xtime, ts);
+		xtime = timespec_add(xtime, ts);
 		wall_to_monotonic = timespec_sub(wall_to_monotonic, ts);
-		total_sleep_time = timespec_add_safe(total_sleep_time, ts);
+		total_sleep_time = timespec_add(total_sleep_time, ts);
 	}
 	/* re-base the last cycle value */
 	timekeeper.clock->cycle_last = timekeeper.clock->read(timekeeper.clock);
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(getboottime);
  */
 void monotonic_to_bootbased(struct timespec *ts)
 {
-	*ts = timespec_add_safe(*ts, total_sleep_time);
+	*ts = timespec_add(*ts, total_sleep_time);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(monotonic_to_bootbased);