Re: [PATCH] signal: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>]

Quoting Kees Cook (keescook@chromium.org):
> From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
> 
> 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@gmail.com>

Sorry, not sure if this is applied yet,

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>

> Reviewed-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  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
> 
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