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posix-timers: Fix stack info leak in timer_create()
If userland creates a timer without specifying a sigevent info, we'll create one ourself, using a stack local variable. Particularly will we use the timer ID as sival_int. But as sigev_value is a union containing a pointer and an int, that assignment will only partially initialize sigev_value on systems where the size of a pointer is bigger than the size of an int. On such systems we'll copy the uninitialized stack bytes from the timer_create() call to userland when the timer actually fires and we're going to deliver the signal. Initialize sigev_value with 0 to plug the stack info leak. Found in the PaX patch, written by the PaX Team. Fixes: 5a9fa73 ("posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and...") Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Brad Spengler <[email protected]> Cc: PaX Team <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> # v2.6.28+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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