Richard Cochran 4352d9d44b 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 <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 08:31:23 -07:00
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2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00