[PATCH] infoleak fix1 in signal

From	Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] infoleak fix1 in signal
Date	2016-05-03 22:40 +0200
Message-ID	<ruPgT-6BH-31@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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The stack object “info” has a total size of 128 bytes; however,
only 28 bytes are initialized. The remaining uninitialized bytes
are sent to userland via send_signal.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>
---
 kernel/signal.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index aa9bf00..f40f0b3 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1594,6 +1594,7 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
 			sig = SIGCHLD;
 	}
 
+	memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
 	info.si_signo = sig;
 	info.si_errno = 0;
 	/*
-- 
1.9.1

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[PATCH] infoleak fix1 in signal Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] infoleak fix1 in signal Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-05-04 12:40 +0200

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