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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-03 08:29:20 -0500
committerClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2012-02-15 10:32:30 -0600
commit83ba5b9fd3ad518773a145a1f80c43ed2e140721 (patch)
tree75905faa7491443b1d1c9dca847fe59f80b60d46 /kernel
parent4e1c9448aa324016e604e3516c3a4afc2ee7b6bb (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>
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 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);