From: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> host_to_target_siginfo() is implemented by a combination of host_to_target_siginfo_noswap() followed by tswap_siginfo(). The first of these two functions assumes that the target_siginfo_t it is writing to is correctly aligned, but the pointer passed into host_to_target_siginfo() is directly from the guest and might be misaligned. Use a local variable to avoid this problem. (tswap_siginfo() does now correctly handle a misaligned destination.)
We have to add a memset() to host_to_target_siginfo_noswap() to avoid some false positive "may be used uninitialized" warnings from gcc about subfields of the _sifields union if it chooses to inline both tswap_siginfo() and host_to_target_siginfo_noswap() into host_to_target_siginfo(). Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laur...@vivier.eu> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <riku.voi...@linaro.org> --- linux-user/signal.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/linux-user/signal.c b/linux-user/signal.c index 1dadddf..e2d55ff 100644 --- a/linux-user/signal.c +++ b/linux-user/signal.c @@ -278,6 +278,14 @@ static inline void host_to_target_siginfo_noswap(target_siginfo_t *tinfo, tinfo->si_errno = 0; tinfo->si_code = info->si_code; + /* This memset serves two purposes: + * (1) ensure we don't leak random junk to the guest later + * (2) placate false positives from gcc about fields + * being used uninitialized if it chooses to inline both this + * function and tswap_siginfo() into host_to_target_siginfo(). + */ + memset(tinfo->_sifields._pad, 0, sizeof(tinfo->_sifields._pad)); + /* This is awkward, because we have to use a combination of * the si_code and si_signo to figure out which of the union's * members are valid. (Within the host kernel it is always possible @@ -397,8 +405,9 @@ static void tswap_siginfo(target_siginfo_t *tinfo, void host_to_target_siginfo(target_siginfo_t *tinfo, const siginfo_t *info) { - host_to_target_siginfo_noswap(tinfo, info); - tswap_siginfo(tinfo, tinfo); + target_siginfo_t tgt_tmp; + host_to_target_siginfo_noswap(&tgt_tmp, info); + tswap_siginfo(tinfo, &tgt_tmp); } /* XXX: we support only POSIX RT signals are used. */ -- 2.1.4