From 25985edcedea6396277003854657b5f3cb31a628 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucas De Marchi Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:57:33 -0300 Subject: Fix common misspellings Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi --- kernel/time/jiffies.c | 2 +- kernel/time/timer_stats.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c index b2fa506667c0..a470154e0408 100644 --- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c +++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ * inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer * interrupts and the inability for the timer * interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the - * requested HZ value. It is also not reccomended + * requested HZ value. It is also not recommended * for "tick-less" systems. */ #define NSEC_PER_JIFFY ((u32)((((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC)<<8)/ACTHZ)) diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_stats.c b/kernel/time/timer_stats.c index 2f3b585b8d7d..a5d0a3a85dd8 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timer_stats.c +++ b/kernel/time/timer_stats.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ void timer_stats_update_stats(void *timer, pid_t pid, void *startf, unsigned int timer_flag) { /* - * It doesnt matter which lock we take: + * It doesn't matter which lock we take: */ raw_spinlock_t *lock; struct entry *entry, input; -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 4352d9d44b935e4d000be6ec89ddb55c2bf35f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Cochran Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:31:23 -0700 Subject: ntp: fix non privileged system time shifting The ADJ_SETOFFSET bit added in commit 094aa188 ("ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit") also introduced a way for any user to change the system time. Sneaky or buggy calls to adjtimex() could set ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ | ADJ_SETOFFSET which would result in a successful call to timekeeping_inject_offset(). This patch fixes the issue by adding the capability check. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/time/ntp.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c index 5f1bb8e2008f..f6117a4c7cb8 100644 --- a/kernel/time/ntp.c +++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c @@ -652,6 +652,8 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc) struct timespec delta; delta.tv_sec = txc->time.tv_sec; delta.tv_nsec = txc->time.tv_usec; + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TIME)) + return -EPERM; if (!(txc->modes & ADJ_NANO)) delta.tv_nsec *= 1000; result = timekeeping_inject_offset(&delta); -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7