[PATCH] VFS: check nanoseconds in utimensat

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Wed Oct 17 2007 - 02:27:07 EST


utimensat() (and possibly other callers of do_utimes()) didn't check if the
nanosecond value was within the allowed range.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
index 682eb63..b9912ec 100644
--- a/fs/utimes.c
+++ b/fs/utimes.c
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_utime(char __user *filename, struct
utimbuf __user *times)

#endif

+static bool nsec_valid(long nsec)
+{
+ if (nsec == UTIME_OMIT || nsec == UTIME_NOW)
+ return true;
+
+ return nsec >= 0 && nsec <= 999999999;
+}
+
/* If times==NULL, set access and modification to current time,
* must be owner or have write permission.
* Else, update from *times, must be owner or super user.
@@ -52,6 +60,11 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct
timespec *times, int flags
struct file *f = NULL;

error = -EINVAL;
+ if (times && (!nsec_valid(times[0].tv_nsec) ||
+ !nsec_valid(times[1].tv_nsec))) {
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (flags & ~AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
goto out;



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