On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Commit 3eb39f47934f ("signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall") introduced
> copy_siginfo_from_user_any(), but missed to add the __user annotation to
> the user pointer that is passed as second argument.
>
> Hence, when copy_siginfo_from_user_any() calls copy_siginfo_from_user(),
> sparse warns:
>
> kernel/signal.c:3716:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different
> address spaces)
> kernel/signal.c:3716:46: expected struct siginfo const [noderef]
> [usertype] __user *from
> kernel/signal.c:3716:46: got struct siginfo [usertype] *info
>
> And when pidfd_send_signal() calls copy_siginfo_from_user_any(), sparse
> warns as well:
>
> kernel/signal.c:3776:58: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different
> address spaces)
> kernel/signal.c:3776:58: expected struct siginfo [usertype] *info
> kernel/signal.c:3776:58: got struct siginfo [noderef] [usertype] __user
> *info
>
> Add the __user annotation to repair this chain of propagating __user
> annotations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulw...@gmail.com>
> ---
> applies cleanly on current master (v5.10-rc7) and next-20201204
>
> Christian, please pick this minor non-urgent clean-up patch.
Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately I already picked up Jann's patch who
sent it yesterday or this morning:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/commit/?h=pidfd
Thanks!
Christian
