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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Eric W. Biederman
2018-01-05 17:27:42 -06:00
parent 8c5dbf2ae0
commit faf1f22b61
3 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -737,6 +737,7 @@ static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
delivered even if we can't queue. Failure to
queue in this case _should_ be reported; we fall
back to SIGIO in that case. --sct */
clear_siginfo(&si);
si.si_signo = signum;
si.si_errno = 0;
si.si_code = reason;