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authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2014-12-03 19:25:05 -0500
committerZefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>2015-04-14 17:33:51 +0800
commit3f6d9b62622ce5dbb870160cb3da5f8bfc87adee (patch)
tree91e676b714b14bd2b06f4ec68bd892963a966961 /kernel
parent370375c0a447eefedc19e872e5137eeff47162f2 (diff)
time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values
commit 5e5aeb4367b450a28f447f6d5ab57d8f2ab16a5f upstream. Verify that the frequency value from userspace is valid and makes sense. Unverified values can cause overflows later on. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> [jstultz: Fix up bug for negative values and drop redunent cap check] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/ntp.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index 8b707100286b..7666b24ca9ab 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -660,6 +660,13 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc)
return result;
}
+ if (txc->modes & ADJ_FREQUENCY) {
+ if (LONG_MIN / PPM_SCALE > txc->freq)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (LONG_MAX / PPM_SCALE < txc->freq)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
getnstimeofday(&ts);
spin_lock_irq(&ntp_lock);