3.5.7.12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> commit b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f upstream. 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: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 0e9b729..c0356f9 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2885,7 +2885,7 @@ 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; -- 1.8.1.2 -- 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