The savings for copying just part of struct siginfo appears to be in the
noise on modern machines. So remove this ``optimization'' and simplify the code.
At the same time mark the second parameter as constant so there is no confusion
as to which direction the copy will go.
This ensures that a fully initialized siginfo that is sent ends up as
a fully initialized siginfo on the signal queue. This full initialization
ensures even confused code won't copy unitialized data to userspace, and
it prepares for turning copy_siginfo_to_user into a simple copy_to_user.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/signal.h | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index 042968dd98f0..8037b503ce91 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -11,13 +11,9 @@ struct task_struct;
/* for sysctl */
extern int print_fatal_signals;
-static inline void copy_siginfo(struct siginfo *to, struct siginfo *from)
+static inline void copy_siginfo(struct siginfo *to, const struct siginfo *from)
{
- if (from->si_code < 0)
- memcpy(to, from, sizeof(*to));
- else
- /* _sigchld is currently the largest know union member */
- memcpy(to, from, __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE + sizeof(from->_sifields._sigchld));
+ memcpy(to, from, sizeof(*to));
}
int copy_siginfo_to_user(struct siginfo __user *to, const struct siginfo *from);
--
2.14.1
