From acadd95e10777dd0a5c12367736bceae2788e67a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:29:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] posix-timers: Prevent broadcast signals commit f736e04057fae4b720d333255876c9491e9ed14d in tip. Posix timers should not send broadcast signals and kernel only signals. Prevent it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- kernel/posix-timers.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c index 00d1fda..711737b 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ 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)) || @@ -470,7 +471,8 @@ 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); -- 1.7.0.4