[PATCH] futex: check and validate timevals

The futex timeval is not checked for correctness.  The change does not
break existing applications as the timeval is supplied by glibc (and glibc
always passes a correct value), but the glibc-internal tests for this
functionality fail.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.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/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 9c9b2b6b22dd692ec14784331d4d3197503b86fe..5699c512057b087a14633b357a618d4528d4a032 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1039,9 +1039,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, int val,
        unsigned long timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
        int val2 = 0;
 
-       if ((op == FUTEX_WAIT) && utime) {
+       if (utime && (op == FUTEX_WAIT)) {
                if (copy_from_user(&t, utime, sizeof(t)) != 0)
                        return -EFAULT;
+               if (!timespec_valid(&t))
+                       return -EINVAL;
                timeout = timespec_to_jiffies(&t) + 1;
        }
        /*

diff --git a/kernel/futex_compat.c b/kernel/futex_compat.c
index 54274fc853216d7448762c78e37ac0cd30d5e8f6..1ab6a0ea3d14776e9a84d3b8af71ffd418da5498 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/futex_compat.c
+++ b/kernel/futex_compat.c
@@ -129,9 +129,11 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val,
        unsigned long timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
        int val2 = 0;
 
-       if ((op == FUTEX_WAIT) && utime) {
+       if (utime && (op == FUTEX_WAIT)) {
                if (get_compat_timespec(&t, utime))
                        return -EFAULT;
+               if (!timespec_valid(&t))
+                       return -EINVAL;
                timeout = timespec_to_jiffies(&t) + 1;
        }
        if (op >= FUTEX_REQUEUE)