time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values
authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:25:05 +0000 (19:25 -0500)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:45:01 +0000 (15:45 +0100)
commitf09c62a1c27dcc43a06e5ebb27ae67306146277b
tree51e59b5a6d7128e00ee18bf5c91f0772bf3338ab
parent7d191a70e81163aabc6e6ad1ad578ca4c6cc6981
time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values

commit 5e5aeb4367b450a28f447f6d5ab57d8f2ab16a5f upstream.

Verify that the frequency value from userspace is valid and makes sense.

Unverified values can cause overflows later on.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
[jstultz: Fix up bug for negative values and drop redunent cap check]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
kernel/time/ntp.c