From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:24:01 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] Fix get_compat_sigevent()
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51410d3c53d85da0f24277f9580cbec1260ffc8f;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git

[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>
---

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) ||