From a74ab6b2d4c1773a03f94ac3235d09dd052f9abe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 09:50:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/signal.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 20931a892ace1..d7d1adf735f44 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; /* -- 2.39.5