From 5e5aeb4367b450a28f447f6d5ab57d8f2ab16a5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 19:25:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values

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>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.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>
---
 kernel/time/ntp.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index 87a346fd6d61..28bf91c60a0b 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -633,6 +633,13 @@ int ntp_validate_timex(struct timex *txc)
 	if ((txc->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) && (!capable(CAP_SYS_TIME)))
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	if (txc->modes & ADJ_FREQUENCY) {
+		if (LONG_MIN / PPM_SCALE > txc->freq)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		if (LONG_MAX / PPM_SCALE < txc->freq)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2