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time: settimeofday: Validate the values of tv from user
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An unvalidated user input is multiplied by a constant, which can result in
an undefined behaviour for large values. While this is validated later,
we should avoid triggering undefined behaviour.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
[jstultz: include trivial milisecond->microsecond correction noticed
by Andy]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
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sashalevin authored and johnstultz-work committed Jan 7, 2015
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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/time.h
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Expand Up @@ -99,6 +99,19 @@ static inline bool timespec_valid_strict(const struct timespec *ts)
return true;
}

static inline bool timeval_valid(const struct timeval *tv)
{
/* Dates before 1970 are bogus */
if (tv->tv_sec < 0)
return false;

/* Can't have more microseconds then a second */
if (tv->tv_usec < 0 || tv->tv_usec >= USEC_PER_SEC)
return false;

return true;
}

extern struct timespec timespec_trunc(struct timespec t, unsigned gran);

#define CURRENT_TIME (current_kernel_time())
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions kernel/time/time.c
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Expand Up @@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(settimeofday, struct timeval __user *, tv,
if (tv) {
if (copy_from_user(&user_tv, tv, sizeof(*tv)))
return -EFAULT;

if (!timeval_valid(&user_tv))
return -EINVAL;

new_ts.tv_sec = user_tv.tv_sec;
new_ts.tv_nsec = user_tv.tv_usec * NSEC_PER_USEC;
}
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