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time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values
authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:25:05 +0000 (19:25 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:40:44 +0000 (17:40 -0800)
commite8e3b6ddd0a6afa267029141946918392b425cf4
tree71b3084ae66090d49464321a1573bb8070dc71f5
parent5f4d5404ee8af904b8e843a7fc21f27ff8e6cb83
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/time/ntp.c