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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-09-03 09:50:36 +0200
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-09-11 21:19:28 +0200
commitf149b31557446aff9ca96d4be7e39cc266f6e7cc (patch)
tree2fcd6f912dbde8435daa1932569fc25697894d10
parent035150540545f62bada95860ba00fe1e0cd62f63 (diff)
downloadlinux-f149b31557446aff9ca96d4be7e39cc266f6e7cc.tar.bz2
signal: Never allocate siginfo for SIGKILL or SIGSTOP
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. Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c7
1 files 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;
/*