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Unfortunately struct siginfo has holes both in the common part of the structure, in the union members, and in the lack of padding of the union members. The result of those wholes is that the C standard does not guarantee those bits will be initialized. As struct siginfo is for communication between the kernel and userspace that is a problem. Add the helper function clear_siginfo that is guaranteed to clear all of the bits in struct siginfo so when the structure is copied there is no danger of copying old kernel data and causing a leak of information from kernel space to userspace. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.