[tip:timers/core] timerfd: Reject ALARM timerfds without CAP_WAKE_ALARM

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Commit-ID:  2895a5e5b3ae78d9923a91fce405d4a2f32c4309
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2895a5e5b3ae78d9923a91fce405d4a2f32c4309
Author:     Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:08:59 -0700
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 23:42:38 +0200

timerfd: Reject ALARM timerfds without CAP_WAKE_ALARM

timerfd gives processes a way to set wake alarms, but unlike timers made using
timer_create, timerfds don't check whether the process has CAP_WAKE_ALARM
before setting alarm-time timers. CAP_WAKE_ALARM is supposed to gate this
behavior and so it makes sense that we should deny permission to create such
timerfds if the process doesn't have this capability.

Signed-off-by: Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465427339-96209-1-git-send-email-ejcaruso@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/timerfd.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c
index 053818d..9ae4abb 100644
--- a/fs/timerfd.c
+++ b/fs/timerfd.c
@@ -390,6 +390,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timerfd_create, int, clockid, int, flags)
 	     clockid != CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) &&
+	    (clockid == CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM ||
+	     clockid == CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -433,6 +438,11 @@ static int do_timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
 		return ret;
 	ctx = f.file->private_data;
 
+	if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) && isalarm(ctx)) {
+		fdput(f);
+		return -EPERM;
+	}
+
 	timerfd_setup_cancel(ctx, flags);
 
 	/*
--
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