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Commit 35eb7258 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner
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itimer: Make timeval to nsec conversion range limited



The expiry time of a itimer is supplied through sys_setitimer() via a
struct timeval. The timeval is validated for correctness.

In the actual set timer implementation the timeval is converted to a
scalar nanoseconds value. If the tv_sec part of the time spec is large
enough the conversion to nanoseconds (sec * NSEC_PER_SEC) overflows 64bit.

Mitigate that by using the timeval_to_ktime() conversion function, which
checks the tv_sec part for a potential mult overflow and clamps the result
to KTIME_MAX, which is about 292 years. 

Reported-by: default avatarXishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170620154113.505981643@linutronix.de
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