Re: general protection fault in string

[Eric Biggers]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 03:03:05PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 
> The bug is that sys_timer_create() allows setting ->it_sigev_notify to almost
> any value, but show_timer() assumes that it has one of a specific set of values.
> Here's a simplified reproducer:
> 
> 	#include <fcntl.h>
> 	#include <signal.h>
> 	#include <time.h>
> 	#include <unistd.h>
> 
> 	int main()
> 	{
> 		struct sigevent e = {
> 			.sigev_signo = 0x1c,
> 			.sigev_notify = 0x100000,
> 		};
> 		timer_t t;
> 		int fd;
> 		char buf[64];
> 
> 		timer_create(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &e, &t);
> 
> 		fd = open("/proc/self/timers", O_RDONLY);
> 
> 		read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
> 	}
> 
> I wonder if anything would break if we made sys_timer_create() return -EINVAL
> for unrecognized values of sigev_notify?  That's what it *should* do, but it
> seems to be the classic "unchecked flags" bug, yet again...
> 

Ah, I see that this was previously reported and a fix was already sent out
(https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151204669103208&w=2).  Let's mark this
report as a duplicate:

#syz dup: general protection fault in show_timer