[PATCH] time: settimeofday: validate the values of tv fomr user

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Dec 01 2014 - 23:04:46 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/time.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c
index 9ec4fa5..6f53df7 100644
--- a/kernel/time/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time/time.c
@@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(settimeofday, struct timeval __user *, tv,
if (tv) {
if (copy_from_user(&user_tv, tv, sizeof(*tv)))
return -EFAULT;
+
+ if (user_tv.tv_usec > USEC_PER_SEC || user_tv.tv_usec < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
new_ts.tv_sec = user_tv.tv_sec;
new_ts.tv_nsec = user_tv.tv_usec * NSEC_PER_USEC;
}
--
1.7.10.4

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