[PATCH 4.14 040/178] posix-timer: Properly check sigevent->sigev_notify

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Dec 18 2017 - 11:41:56 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit cef31d9af908243421258f1df35a4a644604efbe upstream.

timer_create() specifies via sigevent->sigev_notify the signal delivery for
the new timer. The valid modes are SIGEV_NONE, SIGEV_SIGNAL, SIGEV_THREAD
and (SIGEV_SIGNAL | SIGEV_THREAD_ID).

The sanity check in good_sigevent() is only checking the valid combination
for the SIGEV_THREAD_ID bit, i.e. SIGEV_SIGNAL, but if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is
not set it accepts any random value.

This has no real effects on the posix timer and signal delivery code, but
it affects show_timer() which handles the output of /proc/$PID/timers. That
function uses a string array to pretty print sigev_notify. The access to
that array has no bound checks, so random sigev_notify cause access beyond
the array bounds.

Add proper checks for the valid notify modes and remove the SIGEV_THREAD_ID
masking from various code pathes as SIGEV_NONE can never be set in
combination with SIGEV_THREAD_ID.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -434,17 +434,22 @@ static struct pid *good_sigevent(sigeven
{
struct task_struct *rtn = current->group_leader;

- if ((event->sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID ) &&
- (!(rtn = find_task_by_vpid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id)) ||
- !same_thread_group(rtn, current) ||
- (event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_SIGNAL))
+ switch (event->sigev_notify) {
+ case SIGEV_SIGNAL | SIGEV_THREAD_ID:
+ rtn = find_task_by_vpid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id);
+ if (!rtn || !same_thread_group(rtn, current))
+ return NULL;
+ /* FALLTHRU */
+ case SIGEV_SIGNAL:
+ case SIGEV_THREAD:
+ if (event->sigev_signo <= 0 || event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX)
+ return NULL;
+ /* FALLTHRU */
+ case SIGEV_NONE:
+ return task_pid(rtn);
+ default:
return NULL;
-
- if (((event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_NONE) &&
- ((event->sigev_signo <= 0) || (event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX)))
- return NULL;
-
- return task_pid(rtn);
+ }
}

static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
@@ -669,7 +674,7 @@ void common_timer_get(struct k_itimer *t
struct timespec64 ts64;
bool sig_none;

- sig_none = (timr->it_sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) == SIGEV_NONE;
+ sig_none = timr->it_sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE;
iv = timr->it_interval;

/* interval timer ? */
@@ -856,7 +861,7 @@ int common_timer_set(struct k_itimer *ti

timr->it_interval = timespec64_to_ktime(new_setting->it_interval);
expires = timespec64_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value);
- sigev_none = (timr->it_sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) == SIGEV_NONE;
+ sigev_none = timr->it_sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE;

kc->timer_arm(timr, expires, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME, sigev_none);
timr->it_active = !sigev_none;