[PATCH 3.2 090/152] time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values

Ben Hutchings
2015-02-17T01:46:53Z

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

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>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
kernel/time/ntp.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -608,6 +608,13 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc)
return -EINVAL;
}

+ if (txc->modes & ADJ_FREQUENCY) {
+ if (LONG_MIN / PPM_SCALE > txc->freq)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (LONG_MAX / PPM_SCALE < txc->freq)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
if (txc->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) {
struct timespec delta;
delta.tv_sec = txc->time.tv_sec;