From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:52:29 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] hrtimer: validate timespec of do_sys_settimeofday
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc1~591
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=718bcceb5ad72a5def2c2fd1fa3ef964be32a857;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[PATCH] hrtimer: validate timespec of do_sys_settimeofday

Check if the timespec which is provided from user space is normalized.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index bbc8ca194b5..c689b53297c 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv, struct timezone *tz)
 	static int firsttime = 1;
 	int error = 0;
 
+	if (!timespec_valid(tv))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	error = security_settime(tv, tz);
 	if (error)
 		return error;