[patch 1/2] timerfd add flags check

From: Davide Libenzi
Date: Sun Feb 08 2009 - 18:23:23 EST


Like Michael requested, this patch adds a missing check for valid flags in
timerfd_settime(), and make it return EINVAL in case some extra bits are
set. If this is or not a -stable thing, it Greg decision.
Should be queued by Andrew for .30, unless -stable and Linus decide to
get it before, like Michael suggested.



Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


- Davide


---
fs/timerfd.c | 12 ++++++------
include/linux/timerfd.h | 17 ++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/timerfd.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/fs/timerfd.c 2009-02-08 14:51:12.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.mod/fs/timerfd.c 2009-02-08 14:55:32.000000000 -0800
@@ -186,10 +186,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timerfd_create, int, clo
BUILD_BUG_ON(TFD_CLOEXEC != O_CLOEXEC);
BUILD_BUG_ON(TFD_NONBLOCK != O_NONBLOCK);

- if (flags & ~(TFD_CLOEXEC | TFD_NONBLOCK))
- return -EINVAL;
- if (clockid != CLOCK_MONOTONIC &&
- clockid != CLOCK_REALTIME)
+ if ((flags & ~TFD_CREATE_FLAGS) ||
+ (clockid != CLOCK_MONOTONIC &&
+ clockid != CLOCK_REALTIME))
return -EINVAL;

ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -201,7 +200,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timerfd_create, int, clo
hrtimer_init(&ctx->tmr, clockid, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);

ufd = anon_inode_getfd("[timerfd]", &timerfd_fops, ctx,
- flags & (O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK));
+ flags & TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS);
if (ufd < 0)
kfree(ctx);

@@ -219,7 +218,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(timerfd_settime, int, uf
if (copy_from_user(&ktmr, utmr, sizeof(ktmr)))
return -EFAULT;

- if (!timespec_valid(&ktmr.it_value) ||
+ if ((flags & ~TFD_SETTIME_FLAGS) ||
+ !timespec_valid(&ktmr.it_value) ||
!timespec_valid(&ktmr.it_interval))
return -EINVAL;

Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/linux/timerfd.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/linux/timerfd.h 2009-02-08 14:51:12.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/linux/timerfd.h 2009-02-08 14:53:00.000000000 -0800
@@ -11,13 +11,24 @@
/* For O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK */
#include <linux/fcntl.h>

-/* Flags for timerfd_settime. */
+/*
+ * CAREFUL: Check include/asm-generic/fcntl.h when defining
+ * new flags, since they might collide with O_* ones. We want
+ * to re-use O_* flags that couldn't possibly have a meaning
+ * from eventfd, in order to leave a free define-space for
+ * shared O_* flags.
+ */
#define TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME (1 << 0)
-
-/* Flags for timerfd_create. */
#define TFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
#define TFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK

+#define TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS (TFD_CLOEXEC | TFD_NONBLOCK)
+/* Flags for timerfd_create. */
+#define TFD_CREATE_FLAGS TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS
+/* Flags for timerfd_settime. */
+#define TFD_SETTIME_FLAGS TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME
+#define TFD_FLAGS_SET (TFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS | TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME)
+

#endif /* _LINUX_TIMERFD_H */

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