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<title>coredump: Use the vma snapshot in fill_files_note</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T11:59:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-08T19:04:19+00:00</published>
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commit 390031c942116d4733310f0684beb8db19885fe6 upstream.

Matthew Wilcox reported that there is a missing mmap_lock in
file_files_note that could possibly lead to a user after free.

Solve this by using the existing vma snapshot for consistency
and to avoid the need to take the mmap_lock anywhere in the
coredump code except for dump_vma_snapshot.

Update the dump_vma_snapshot to capture vm_pgoff and vm_file
that are neeeded by fill_files_note.

Add free_vma_snapshot to free the captured values of vm_file.

Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220131153740.2396974-1-willy@infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a07279c9a8cd ("binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot")
Fixes: 2aa362c49c31 ("coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files")
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 390031c942116d4733310f0684beb8db19885fe6 upstream.

Matthew Wilcox reported that there is a missing mmap_lock in
file_files_note that could possibly lead to a user after free.

Solve this by using the existing vma snapshot for consistency
and to avoid the need to take the mmap_lock anywhere in the
coredump code except for dump_vma_snapshot.

Update the dump_vma_snapshot to capture vm_pgoff and vm_file
that are neeeded by fill_files_note.

Add free_vma_snapshot to free the captured values of vm_file.

Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220131153740.2396974-1-willy@infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a07279c9a8cd ("binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot")
Fixes: 2aa362c49c31 ("coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files")
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>coredump: Snapshot the vmas in do_coredump</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T11:59:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-08T18:55:29+00:00</published>
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commit 95c5436a4883841588dae86fb0b9325f47ba5ad3 upstream.

Move the call of dump_vma_snapshot and kvfree(vma_meta) out of the
individual coredump routines into do_coredump itself.  This makes
the code less error prone and easier to maintain.

Make the vma snapshot available to the coredump routines
in struct coredump_params.  This makes it easier to
change and update what is captures in the vma snapshot
and will be needed for fixing fill_file_notes.

Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 95c5436a4883841588dae86fb0b9325f47ba5ad3 upstream.

Move the call of dump_vma_snapshot and kvfree(vma_meta) out of the
individual coredump routines into do_coredump itself.  This makes
the code less error prone and easier to maintain.

Make the vma snapshot available to the coredump routines
in struct coredump_params.  This makes it easier to
change and update what is captures in the vma snapshot
and will be needed for fixing fill_file_notes.

Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/coredump: move coredump sysctls into its own file</title>
<updated>2022-01-22T06:33:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaoming Ni</name>
<email>nixiaoming@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-22T06:13:38+00:00</published>
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This moves the fs/coredump.c respective sysctls to its own file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-6-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni &lt;nixiaoming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Antti Palosaari &lt;crope@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Lukas Middendorf &lt;kernel@tuxforce.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This moves the fs/coredump.c respective sysctls to its own file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-6-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni &lt;nixiaoming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Antti Palosaari &lt;crope@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Lukas Middendorf &lt;kernel@tuxforce.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>coredump.h: move CONFIG_COREDUMP-only stuff inside the ifdef</title>
<updated>2021-03-08T15:21:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-04T01:51:48+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>coredump: don't bother with do_truncate()</title>
<updated>2021-03-08T15:21:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-08T13:16:37+00:00</published>
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have dump_skip() just remember how much needs to be skipped,
leave actual seeks/writing zeroes to the next dump_emit()
or the end of coredump output, whichever comes first.
And instead of playing with do_truncate() in the end, just
write one NUL at the end of the last gap (if any).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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have dump_skip() just remember how much needs to be skipped,
leave actual seeks/writing zeroes to the next dump_emit()
or the end of coredump output, whichever comes first.
And instead of playing with do_truncate() in the end, just
write one NUL at the end of the last gap (if any).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:12:54+00:00</published>
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In both binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic, use a new helper
dump_vma_snapshot() to take a snapshot of the VMA list (including the gate
VMA, if we have one) while protected by the mmap_lock, and then use that
snapshot instead of walking the VMA list without locking.

An alternative approach would be to keep the mmap_lock held across the
entire core dumping operation; however, keeping the mmap_lock locked while
we may be blocked for an unbounded amount of time (e.g.  because we're
dumping to a FUSE filesystem or so) isn't really optimal; the mmap_lock
blocks things like the -&gt;release handler of userfaultfd, and we don't
really want critical system daemons to grind to a halt just because
someone "gifted" them SCM_RIGHTS to an eternally-locked userfaultfd, or
something like that.

Since both the normal ELF code and the FDPIC ELF code need this
functionality (and if any other binfmt wants to add coredump support in
the future, they'd probably need it, too), implement this with a common
helper in fs/coredump.c.

A downside of this approach is that we now need a bigger amount of kernel
memory per userspace VMA in the normal ELF case, and that we need O(n)
kernel memory in the FDPIC ELF case at all; but 40 bytes per VMA shouldn't
be terribly bad.

There currently is a data race between stack expansion and anything that
reads -&gt;vm_start or -&gt;vm_end under the mmap_lock held in read mode; to
mitigate that for core dumping, take the mmap_lock in write mode when
taking a snapshot of the VMA hierarchy.  (If we only took the mmap_lock in
read mode, we could end up with a corrupted core dump if someone does
get_user_pages_remote() concurrently.  Not really a major problem, but
taking the mmap_lock either way works here, so we might as well avoid the
issue.) (This doesn't do anything about the existing data races with stack
expansion in other mm code.)

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-6-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In both binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic, use a new helper
dump_vma_snapshot() to take a snapshot of the VMA list (including the gate
VMA, if we have one) while protected by the mmap_lock, and then use that
snapshot instead of walking the VMA list without locking.

An alternative approach would be to keep the mmap_lock held across the
entire core dumping operation; however, keeping the mmap_lock locked while
we may be blocked for an unbounded amount of time (e.g.  because we're
dumping to a FUSE filesystem or so) isn't really optimal; the mmap_lock
blocks things like the -&gt;release handler of userfaultfd, and we don't
really want critical system daemons to grind to a halt just because
someone "gifted" them SCM_RIGHTS to an eternally-locked userfaultfd, or
something like that.

Since both the normal ELF code and the FDPIC ELF code need this
functionality (and if any other binfmt wants to add coredump support in
the future, they'd probably need it, too), implement this with a common
helper in fs/coredump.c.

A downside of this approach is that we now need a bigger amount of kernel
memory per userspace VMA in the normal ELF case, and that we need O(n)
kernel memory in the FDPIC ELF case at all; but 40 bytes per VMA shouldn't
be terribly bad.

There currently is a data race between stack expansion and anything that
reads -&gt;vm_start or -&gt;vm_end under the mmap_lock held in read mode; to
mitigate that for core dumping, take the mmap_lock in write mode when
taking a snapshot of the VMA hierarchy.  (If we only took the mmap_lock in
read mode, we could end up with a corrupted core dump if someone does
get_user_pages_remote() concurrently.  Not really a major problem, but
taking the mmap_lock either way works here, so we might as well avoid the
issue.) (This doesn't do anything about the existing data races with stack
expansion in other mm code.)

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-6-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>coredump: rework elf/elf_fdpic vma_dump_size() into common helper</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:12:50+00:00</published>
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At the moment, the binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic code have slightly
different code to figure out which VMAs should be dumped, and if so,
whether the dump should contain the entire VMA or just its first page.

Eliminate duplicate code by reworking the binfmt_elf version into a
generic core dumping helper in coredump.c.

As part of that, change the heuristic for detecting executable/library
header pages to check whether the inode is executable instead of looking
at the file mode.

This is less problematic in terms of locking because it lets us avoid
get_user() under the mmap_sem.  (And arguably it looks nicer and makes
more sense in generic code.)

Adjust a little bit based on the binfmt_elf_fdpic version: -&gt;anon_vma is
only meaningful under CONFIG_MMU, otherwise we have to assume that the VMA
has been written to.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-5-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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At the moment, the binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic code have slightly
different code to figure out which VMAs should be dumped, and if so,
whether the dump should contain the entire VMA or just its first page.

Eliminate duplicate code by reworking the binfmt_elf version into a
generic core dumping helper in coredump.c.

As part of that, change the heuristic for detecting executable/library
header pages to check whether the inode is executable instead of looking
at the file mode.

This is less problematic in terms of locking because it lets us avoid
get_user() under the mmap_sem.  (And arguably it looks nicer and makes
more sense in generic code.)

Adjust a little bit based on the binfmt_elf_fdpic version: -&gt;anon_vma is
only meaningful under CONFIG_MMU, otherwise we have to assume that the VMA
has been written to.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-5-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>coredump: refactor page range dumping into common helper</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:12:46+00:00</published>
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Both fs/binfmt_elf.c and fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c need to dump ranges of
pages into the coredump file.  Extract that logic into a common helper.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-4-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Both fs/binfmt_elf.c and fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c need to dump ranges of
pages into the coredump file.  Extract that logic into a common helper.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-4-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: remove all extern declaration from sysctl.c</title>
<updated>2020-04-27T06:06:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-24T06:43:36+00:00</published>
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Extern declarations in .c files are a bad style and can lead to
mismatches.  Use existing definitions in headers where they exist,
and otherwise move the external declarations to suitable header
files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Extern declarations in .c files are a bad style and can lead to
mismatches.  Use existing definitions in headers where they exist,
and otherwise move the external declarations to suitable header
files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo</title>
<updated>2018-10-03T14:47:43+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2018-09-25T09:27:20+00:00</published>
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Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding
member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is
much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying
around in the kernel.

The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is
including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in
the kernel that embed struct siginfo.

So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo.  Keeping the
traditional name for the userspace definition.  While the version that
is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to
128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo.

The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h

A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have
the same field offsets.

To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same
size as siginfo.  The reduction in size comes in a following change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding
member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is
much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying
around in the kernel.

The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is
including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in
the kernel that embed struct siginfo.

So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo.  Keeping the
traditional name for the userspace definition.  While the version that
is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to
128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo.

The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h

A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have
the same field offsets.

To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same
size as siginfo.  The reduction in size comes in a following change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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