linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] infoleak fix2 in signal

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Date:	Wed, 4 May 2016 12:41:18 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org, amanieu@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, taesoo@...ech.edu, insu@...ech.edu,
	Kangjie Lu <kjlu@...ech.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] infoleak fix2 in signal

On 05/03, Kangjie Lu wrote:
>
> The stack object “info” has a total size of 128 bytes; however,
> only 32 bytes are initialized. The remaining uninitialized bytes
> are sent to userland via send_signal.

The same, afaics. We do not send the uninitialized bytes to userland.

Oleg.