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| author | Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@google.com> | 2016-06-09 02:08:59 +0300 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2016-06-10 00:42:38 +0300 |
| commit | 2895a5e5b3ae78d9923a91fce405d4a2f32c4309 (patch) | |
| tree | 8168121926c218cc7896c0eacc4382ecdaca3d0c /fs/timerfd.c | |
| parent | af8c34ce6ae32addda3788d54a7e340cad22516b (diff) | |
| download | linux-2895a5e5b3ae78d9923a91fce405d4a2f32c4309.tar.xz | |
timerfd: Reject ALARM timerfds without CAP_WAKE_ALARM
timerfd gives processes a way to set wake alarms, but unlike timers made using
timer_create, timerfds don't check whether the process has CAP_WAKE_ALARM
before setting alarm-time timers. CAP_WAKE_ALARM is supposed to gate this
behavior and so it makes sense that we should deny permission to create such
timerfds if the process doesn't have this capability.
Signed-off-by: Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@google.com>
Cc: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465427339-96209-1-git-send-email-ejcaruso@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/timerfd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/timerfd.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c index 053818dd6c18..9ae4abb4110b 100644 --- a/fs/timerfd.c +++ b/fs/timerfd.c @@ -390,6 +390,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timerfd_create, int, clockid, int, flags) clockid != CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM)) return -EINVAL; + if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) && + (clockid == CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM || + clockid == CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM)) + return -EPERM; + ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ctx) return -ENOMEM; @@ -433,6 +438,11 @@ static int do_timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags, return ret; ctx = f.file->private_data; + if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) && isalarm(ctx)) { + fdput(f); + return -EPERM; + } + timerfd_setup_cancel(ctx, flags); /* |