From f149b31557446aff9ca96d4be7e39cc266f6e7cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 09:50:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] signal: Never allocate siginfo for SIGKILL or SIGSTOP

The SIGKILL and SIGSTOP signals are never delivered to userspace so
queued siginfo for these signals can never be observed.  Therefore
remove the chance of failure by never even attempting to allocate
siginfo in those cases.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 kernel/signal.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 20931a892ace1..d7d1adf735f44 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1054,10 +1054,11 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
 
 	result = TRACE_SIGNAL_DELIVERED;
 	/*
-	 * fast-pathed signals for kernel-internal things like SIGSTOP
-	 * or SIGKILL.
+	 * Skip useless siginfo allocation for SIGKILL SIGSTOP,
+	 * and kernel threads.
 	 */
-	if ((info == SEND_SIG_FORCED) || (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+	if ((info == SEND_SIG_FORCED) ||
+	    sig_kernel_only(sig) || (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
 		goto out_set;
 
 	/*
-- 
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