From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index dd72567..598dc06 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; -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html