linux-kernel - [PATCH 20/20] signal: Remove unnecessary zero-initialization of siginfo

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Message-Id: <1444856371-26319-22-git-send-email-amanieu@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:59:31 +0100
From:	Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 20/20] signal: Remove unnecessary zero-initialization of siginfo_t

This is no longer required since copy_siginfo_from_user32 now
initializes all siginfo_t fields properly.

Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@...il.com>
---
 kernel/ptrace.c | 1 -
 kernel/signal.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 787320d..3aa383b 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1147,7 +1147,6 @@ int compat_ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
 		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_SETSIGINFO:
-		memset(&siginfo, 0, sizeof siginfo);
 		if (copy_siginfo_from_user32(
 			    &siginfo, (struct compat_siginfo __user *) datap))
 			ret = -EFAULT;
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 873e8e2..ce992f2 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3022,7 +3022,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(rt_sigqueueinfo,
 			int, sig,
 			struct compat_siginfo __user *, uinfo)
 {
-	siginfo_t info = {};
+	siginfo_t info;
 	int ret = copy_siginfo_from_user32(&info, uinfo);
 	if (unlikely(ret))
 		return ret;
@@ -3066,7 +3066,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_tgsigqueueinfo,
 			int, sig,
 			struct compat_siginfo __user *, uinfo)
 {
-	siginfo_t info = {};
+	siginfo_t info;
 
 	if (copy_siginfo_from_user32(&info, uinfo))
 		return -EFAULT;
-- 
2.6.1

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