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Eric W. Biederman 8c5dbf2ae0 signal: Introduce clear_siginfo
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>
2018-01-12 14:21:06 -06:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-31 13:13:56 -08:00
arch signal/arm: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE 2018-01-12 14:21:05 -06:00
block block-throttle: avoid double charge 2017-12-20 11:10:17 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-12-22 12:22:48 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-31 13:13:56 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Changes since last update: 2017-12-22 12:27:27 -08:00
include signal: Introduce clear_siginfo 2018-01-12 14:21:06 -06:00
init Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-31 12:27:19 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel signal/arm64: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE,SIGTRAP,SIGBUS 2018-01-12 14:21:05 -06:00
lib Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-31 12:30:34 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-21 11:13:37 -08:00
net strparser: Call sock_owned_by_user_nocheck 2017-12-28 14:28:22 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-15 11:44:59 -08:00
security Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-29 17:02:49 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix missing COEF init for ALC225/295/299 2017-12-27 08:53:59 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-31 11:47:24 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.15, Round 2 2017-12-18 12:57:43 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc fixes for 4.15-rc6 2017-12-31 10:52:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc6 2017-12-31 14:47:43 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

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.