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authorClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2012-04-15 23:24:46 -0500
committerClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2012-04-15 23:24:46 -0500
commit8e9c931b8e4150f3c5aaab7e4639cd507c30477c (patch)
tree4c77bef833db938a950c60095f628acc1ebff50a /kernel/itimer.c
parent3524a83e5459ae4ba42f9bf098bb736b99b88695 (diff)
parente816b57a337ea3b755de72bec38c10c864f23015 (diff)
Merge commit 'v3.4-rc3' into rt-3.4-rc3-rt4v3.4-rc3-rt4
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/itimer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/itimer.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c
index 9fb34053e39d..d0513909d663 100644
--- a/kernel/itimer.c
+++ b/kernel/itimer.c
@@ -285,8 +285,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(setitimer, int, which, struct itimerval __user *, value,
if (value) {
if(copy_from_user(&set_buffer, value, sizeof(set_buffer)))
return -EFAULT;
- } else
- memset((char *) &set_buffer, 0, sizeof(set_buffer));
+ } else {
+ memset(&set_buffer, 0, sizeof(set_buffer));
+ printk_once(KERN_WARNING "%s calls setitimer() with new_value NULL pointer."
+ " Misfeature support will be removed\n",
+ current->comm);
+ }
error = do_setitimer(which, &set_buffer, ovalue ? &get_buffer : NULL);
if (error || !ovalue)