From 718bcceb5ad72a5def2c2fd1fa3ef964be32a857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:52:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] hrtimer: validate timespec of do_sys_settimeofday

Check if the timespec which is provided from user space is normalized.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 kernel/time.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index bbc8ca194b5..c689b53297c 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv, struct timezone *tz)
 	static int firsttime = 1;
 	int error = 0;
 
+	if (!timespec_valid(tv))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	error = security_settime(tv, tz);
 	if (error)
 		return error;