[PATCH 20/20] signal: Remove unnecessary zero-initialization of siginfo_t

From: Amanieu d'Antras
Date: Wed Oct 14 2015 - 17:01:02 EST


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

Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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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