From 51410d3c53d85da0f24277f9580cbec1260ffc8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:24:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Fix get_compat_sigevent()
I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long. Anyways, obvious
memset()'ing of incorrect pointer.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
kernel/compat.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index dad10656bf14..ddfcaaa86623 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ long compat_sys_clock_nanosleep(clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
int get_compat_sigevent(struct sigevent *event,
const struct compat_sigevent __user *u_event)
{
- memset(&event, 0, sizeof(*event));
+ memset(event, 0, sizeof(*event));
return (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, u_event, sizeof(*u_event)) ||
__get_user(event->sigev_value.sival_int,
&u_event->sigev_value.sival_int) ||
--
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