From 6f7d79849a00bba82d3139ff91ff2aaabd12841e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sasha Levin Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 23:04:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] time: Make sure tz_minuteswest is set to a valid value when setting time Invalid values may overflow later, leading to undefined behaviour when multiplied by 60 to get the amount of seconds. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- kernel/time/time.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c index c42c2c3214fe..972e3bbac963 100644 --- a/kernel/time/time.c +++ b/kernel/time/time.c @@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct timespec *tv, const struct timezone *tz) return error; if (tz) { + /* Verify we're witin the +-15 hrs range */ + if (tz->tz_minuteswest > 15*60 || tz->tz_minuteswest < -15*60) + return -EINVAL; + sys_tz = *tz; update_vsyscall_tz(); if (firsttime) {