The SIGKILL and SIGSTOP signals are never delivered to userspace so queued siginfo for these signals can never be observed. Therefore remove the chance of failure by never even attempting to allocate siginfo in those cases. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 20931a892ace..d7d1adf735f4 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1054,10 +1054,11 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t, result = TRACE_SIGNAL_DELIVERED; /* - * fast-pathed signals for kernel-internal things like SIGSTOP - * or SIGKILL. + * Skip useless siginfo allocation for SIGKILL SIGSTOP, + * and kernel threads. */ - if ((info == SEND_SIG_FORCED) || (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) + if ((info == SEND_SIG_FORCED) || + sig_kernel_only(sig) || (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) goto out_set; /* -- 2.17.1
