From aa2bf9bc6414b6972b9e51903c1ce7b1f057aee2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sasikantha babu Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:10:54 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] itimer: Schedule silent NULL pointer fixup in setitimer() for removal setitimer() should return -EFAULT if called with an invalid pointer for value. The current code excludes a NULL pointer from this rule and silently uses it to stop the timer. This violates the spec. Warn about user space apps which rely on that feature and schedule it for removal. [ tglx: Massaged changelog, warn message and Doc entry ] Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332340854-26053-1-git-send-email-sasikanth.v19@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 ++++++++ kernel/itimer.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0cad480..32fae81 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -529,3 +529,11 @@ When: 3.5 Why: The old kmap_atomic() with two arguments is deprecated, we only keep it for backward compatibility for few cycles and then drop it. Who: Cong Wang + +---------------------------- + +What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value) +When: 3.6 +Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This + violates the spec. +Who: Sasikantha Babu diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c index 22000c3..c70369a 100644 --- a/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/itimer.c @@ -284,8 +284,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(setitimer, int, which, struct itimerval __user *, value, if (value) { if(copy_from_user(&set_buffer, value, sizeof(set_buffer))) return -EFAULT; - } else + } else { memset((char *) &set_buffer, 0, sizeof(set_buffer)); + WARN_ONCE(1, "setitimer: new_value pointer is NULL." + " Misfeature support will be removed\n"); + } error = do_setitimer(which, &set_buffer, ovalue ? &get_buffer : NULL); if (error || !ovalue) -- 2.7.4