From: Miklos Szeredi utimensat() (and possibly other callers of do_utimes()) didn't check if the nanosecond value was within the allowed range. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/utimes.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/utimes.c~vfs-check-nanoseconds-in-utimensat fs/utimes.c --- a/fs/utimes.c~vfs-check-nanoseconds-in-utimensat +++ a/fs/utimes.c @@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_utime(char __user *f #endif +static bool nsec_valid(long nsec) +{ + if (nsec == UTIME_OMIT || nsec == UTIME_NOW) + return true; + + return nsec >= 0 && nsec <= 999999999; +} + /* If times==NULL, set access and modification to current time, * must be owner or have write permission. * Else, update from *times, must be owner or super user. @@ -52,6 +60,11 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *fil struct file *f = NULL; error = -EINVAL; + if (times && (!nsec_valid(times[0].tv_nsec) || + !nsec_valid(times[1].tv_nsec))) { + goto out; + } + if (flags & ~AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) goto out; _