[PATCH v2] io_uring/waitid: clear waitid info before copying it to userspace

From: Heechan Kang

Date: Sat May 16 2026 - 15:07:34 EST


IORING_OP_WAITID stores its result fields in struct io_waitid::info and
later copies them to userspace siginfo. The prep path initializes the
request arguments, but it does not initialize info itself.

If the wait operation completes without reporting a child event, the common
wait code can return without writing wo_info. In that case io_waitid_finish()
still copies iw->info to userspace, exposing stale bytes from the reused
io_kiocb command storage.

Clear the result storage during prep so the io_uring path matches the
regular waitid syscall, which uses a zero-initialized struct waitid_info.

Fixes: f31ecf671ddc ("io_uring: add IORING_OP_WAITID support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.7+
Signed-off-by: Heechan Kang <gganji11@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Resend as plain text; no code changes.

io_uring/waitid.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/io_uring/waitid.c b/io_uring/waitid.c
index d25d60aed6a..32f68fd7fcd 100644
--- a/io_uring/waitid.c
+++ b/io_uring/waitid.c
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ int io_waitid_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe)
iw->options = READ_ONCE(sqe->file_index);
iw->head = NULL;
iw->infop = u64_to_user_ptr(READ_ONCE(sqe->addr2));
+ memset(&iw->info, 0, sizeof(iw->info));
return 0;
}

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2.43.0