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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-03 08:29:20 -0500
committerClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2012-01-16 13:00:05 -0600
commita14ebdfeeb00f0ae16bca90b69fa8b317f962226 (patch)
tree890d52e111dd2da529ae721a3691b3771ff841fb
parent9d3112c89fb88183079205401c8d21483f0823b7 (diff)
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>
-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 69185ae6b701..7b73c34f000d 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ 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)) ||
@@ -447,7 +448,8 @@ 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);