[patch 34/74] posix-timers: Fix oops in clock_nanosleep() with CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Aug 13 2009 - 16:09:33 EST


2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 70d715fd0597f18528f389b5ac59102263067744 upstream.

Prevent calling do_nanosleep() with clockid
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, it may cause oops, such as NULL pointer
dereference.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4A764FF3.50607@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
kernel/posix-timers.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -202,6 +202,12 @@ static int no_timer_create(struct k_itim
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}

+static int no_nsleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
+ struct timespec *tsave, struct timespec __user *rmtp)
+{
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
/*
* Return nonzero if we know a priori this clockid_t value is bogus.
*/
@@ -254,6 +260,7 @@ static __init int init_posix_timers(void
.clock_get = posix_get_monotonic_raw,
.clock_set = do_posix_clock_nosettime,
.timer_create = no_timer_create,
+ .nsleep = no_nsleep,
};

register_posix_clock(CLOCK_REALTIME, &clock_realtime);


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