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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-01-05 17:27:42 -0600
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-01-12 14:21:07 -0600
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parentsignal: Introduce clear_siginfo (diff)
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signal: Ensure generic siginfos the kernel sends have all bits initialized
Call clear_siginfo to ensure stack allocated siginfos are fully initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions. This ensures that if there is the kind of confusion documented by TRAP_FIXME, FPE_FIXME, or BUS_FIXME the kernel won't send unitialized data to userspace when the kernel generates a signal with SI_USER but the copy to userspace assumes it is a different kind of signal, and different fields are initialized. This also prepares the way for turning copy_siginfo_to_user into a copy_to_user, by removing the need in many cases to perform a field by field copy simply to skip the uninitialized fields. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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