From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261510AbVDEFpS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:45:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261533AbVDEFpR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:45:17 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:749 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261510AbVDEFpN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:45:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:44:09 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: [PATCH]: Fix get_compat_sigevent() Message-Id: <20050404224409.1a34e732.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long. Anyways, obvious memset()'ing of incorrect pointer. Please apply, thanks. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller ===== kernel/compat.c 1.46 vs edited ===== --- 1.46/kernel/compat.c 2005-03-13 15:29:47 -08:00 +++ edited/kernel/compat.c 2005-04-04 22:36:13 -07:00 @@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ 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) ||