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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-03 13:29:20 (GMT)
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2014-05-14 18:37:45 (GMT)
commitb6b7726f9e05f979aaeb2405eb76d3e1ac06d5b6 (patch)
tree961992389a696f34c2c0324ea71b42258f289f7f /kernel
parent9f31ca1f1a83f107a18da377b9cd28dbbd2b8e87 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-b6b7726f9e05f979aaeb2405eb76d3e1ac06d5b6.tar.xz
posix-timers: Prevent broadcast signals
Posix timers should not send broadcast signals and kernel only signals. Prevent it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-timers.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 424c2d4..68af2dc 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -497,6 +497,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart posix_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *timer)
static struct pid *good_sigevent(sigevent_t * event)
{
struct task_struct *rtn = current->group_leader;
+ int sig = event->sigev_signo;
if ((event->sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID ) &&
(!(rtn = find_task_by_vpid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id)) ||
@@ -505,7 +506,8 @@ static struct pid *good_sigevent(sigevent_t * event)
return NULL;
if (((event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_NONE) &&
- ((event->sigev_signo <= 0) || (event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX)))
+ (sig <= 0 || sig > SIGRTMAX || sig_kernel_only(sig) ||
+ sig_kernel_coredump(sig)))
return NULL;
return task_pid(rtn);