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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] posix timers: Add syscall that works on timer sigevent
On 02/17/2013 05:42 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 08:19:45PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> + struct sigevent event;
> [...]
>> + event.sigev_notify = timer->it_sigev_notify;
>> + event.sigev_signo = timer->sigq->info.si_signo;
>> + event.sigev_value = timer->sigq->info.si_value;
>> + event.sigev_notify_thread_id = pid_vnr(timer->it_pid);
> [...]
>> + if (old_event && copy_to_user(old_event, &event, sizeof(event)))
>
> Won't this leak uninitialized kernel stack data to userspace? As far as I can
> see, the _sigev_un union is bigger than the _tid field in it, so the rest of
> it will be copied over without initialization, right?

Indeed :( Thanks for catching this, I will memezro the thing before copying
to the user-space.

> Jann
>




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