From b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emese Revfy Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:36 -0700 Subject: kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls This fixes a kernel memory contents leak via the tkill and tgkill syscalls for compat processes. This is visible in the siginfo_t->_sifields._rt.si_sigval.sival_ptr field when handling signals delivered from tkill. The place of the infoleak: int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from) { ... put_user_ex(ptr_to_compat(from->si_ptr), &to->si_ptr); ... } Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Reviewed-by: PaX Team Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index dd72567767d..598dc06be42 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2948,7 +2948,7 @@ do_send_specific(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig, struct siginfo *info) static int do_tkill(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig) { - struct siginfo info; + struct siginfo info = {}; info.si_signo = sig; info.si_errno = 0; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258