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posix-timer: Properly check sigevent->sigev_notify
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timer_create() specifies via sigevent->sigev_notify the signal delivery for
the new timer. The valid modes are SIGEV_NONE, SIGEV_SIGNAL, SIGEV_THREAD
and (SIGEV_SIGNAL | SIGEV_THREAD_ID).

The sanity check in good_sigevent() is only checking the valid combination
for the SIGEV_THREAD_ID bit, i.e. SIGEV_SIGNAL, but if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is
not set it accepts any random value.

This has no real effects on the posix timer and signal delivery code, but
it affects show_timer() which handles the output of /proc/$PID/timers. That
function uses a string array to pretty print sigev_notify. The access to
that array has no bound checks, so random sigev_notify cause access beyond
the array bounds.

Add proper checks for the valid notify modes and remove the SIGEV_THREAD_ID
masking from various code pathes as SIGEV_NONE can never be set in
combination with SIGEV_THREAD_ID.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Thomas Gleixner committed Dec 15, 2017
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29 changes: 17 additions & 12 deletions kernel/time/posix-timers.c
Expand Up @@ -434,17 +434,22 @@ static struct pid *good_sigevent(sigevent_t * event)
{
struct task_struct *rtn = current->group_leader;

if ((event->sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID ) &&
(!(rtn = find_task_by_vpid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id)) ||
!same_thread_group(rtn, current) ||
(event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_SIGNAL))
switch (event->sigev_notify) {
case SIGEV_SIGNAL | SIGEV_THREAD_ID:
rtn = find_task_by_vpid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id);
if (!rtn || !same_thread_group(rtn, current))
return NULL;
/* FALLTHRU */
case SIGEV_SIGNAL:
case SIGEV_THREAD:
if (event->sigev_signo <= 0 || event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX)
return NULL;
/* FALLTHRU */
case SIGEV_NONE:
return task_pid(rtn);
default:
return NULL;

if (((event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_NONE) &&
((event->sigev_signo <= 0) || (event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX)))
return NULL;

return task_pid(rtn);
}
}

static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -669,7 +674,7 @@ void common_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr, struct itimerspec64 *cur_setting)
struct timespec64 ts64;
bool sig_none;

sig_none = (timr->it_sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) == SIGEV_NONE;
sig_none = timr->it_sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE;
iv = timr->it_interval;

/* interval timer ? */
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -856,7 +861,7 @@ int common_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags,

timr->it_interval = timespec64_to_ktime(new_setting->it_interval);
expires = timespec64_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value);
sigev_none = (timr->it_sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) == SIGEV_NONE;
sigev_none = timr->it_sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE;

kc->timer_arm(timr, expires, flags & TIMER_ABSTIME, sigev_none);
timr->it_active = !sigev_none;
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