This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled posix-timer: Don't call idr_find() with out-of-range ID to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: posix-timer-don-t-call-idr_find-with-out-of-range-id.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e182bb38d7db7494fa5dcd82da17fe0dedf60ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:24:12 -0800 Subject: posix-timer: Don't call idr_find() with out-of-range ID From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e182bb38d7db7494fa5dcd82da17fe0dedf60ecf upstream. When idr_find() was fed a negative ID, it used to look up the ID ignoring the sign bit before recent ("idr: remove MAX_IDR_MASK and move left MAX_IDR_* into idr.c") patch. Now a negative ID triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE(). __lock_timer() feeds timer_id from userland directly to idr_find() without sanitizing it which can trigger the above malfunctions. Add a range check on @timer_id before invoking idr_find() in __lock_timer(). While timer_t is defined as int by all archs at the moment, Andrew worries that it may be defined as a larger type later on. Make the test cover larger integers too so that it at least is guaranteed to not return the wrong timer. Note that WARN_ON_ONCE() in idr_find() on id < 0 is transitional precaution while moving away from ignoring MSB. Once it's gone we can remove the guard as long as timer_t isn't larger than int. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>nnn Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130220232412.GL3570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/posix-timers.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -639,6 +639,13 @@ static struct k_itimer *__lock_timer(tim { struct k_itimer *timr; + /* + * timer_t could be any type >= int and we want to make sure any + * @timer_id outside positive int range fails lookup. + */ + if ((unsigned long long)timer_id > INT_MAX) + return NULL; + rcu_read_lock(); timr = idr_find(&posix_timers_id, (int)timer_id); if (timr) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/posix-timer-don-t-call-idr_find-with-out-of-range-id.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html