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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-04-16 15:24:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-16 15:24:01 -0700
commit51410d3c53d85da0f24277f9580cbec1260ffc8f (patch)
tree947575daff5bee85e09a438f40f11aae57cd0475 /kernel/compat.c
parent5df240826c90afdc7956f55a004ea6b702df9203 (diff)
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[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/compat.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/compat.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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) ||