[Devel] [PATCH netdev] "wrong timeout value" in sk_wait_data()

Vasily Averin vvs at sw.ru
Wed May 23 21:22:03 PDT 2007


sys_setsockopt() do not check properly timeout values for
SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO, for example it's possible to set negative timeout
values. POSIX do not defines behaviour for sys_setsockopt in case negative
timeouts, but requires that setsockopt() shall fail with -EDOM if the send and
receive timeout values are too big to fit into the timeout fields in the socket
structure.
In current implementation negative timeout can lead to error messages like
"schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value".

Proposed patch:
- checks tv_usec and returns -EDOM if it is wrong
- do not allows to set negative timeout values (sets 0 instead) and outputs
ratelimited information message about such attempts.

Signed-Off-By:	Vasily Averin <vvs at sw.ru>

diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 22183c2..27d7a46 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -206,7 +206,19 @@ static int sock_set_timeout(long *timeo_p, char __user
*optval, int optlen)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (copy_from_user(&tv, optval, sizeof(tv)))
 		return -EFAULT;
-
+	if (tv.tv_usec < 0 || tv.tv_usec >= 1000000)
+		return -EDOM;
+
+	if (tv.tv_sec < 0) {
+		static int warned = 0;
+		*timeo_p = 0;
+		if (warned < 10 && net_ratelimit())
+			warned++;
+			printk(KERN_INFO "sock_set_timeout: `%s' (pid %d) "
+			       "tries to set negative timeout\n",
+			        current->comm, current->pid);
+		return 0;
+	}
 	*timeo_p = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
 	if (tv.tv_sec == 0 && tv.tv_usec == 0)
 		return 0;




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