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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2012-05-21 21:39:42 +0200
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2012-05-21 21:39:42 +0200
commit0ad8c6a22d03a1598f7cc6585c65354dadca62ad (patch)
tree1507deef3d55d5f3c71b2f76924fe1f6c6211905 /kernel/itimer.c
parent8527f8e2934683e53405fbe876a4e6f4a0c46eb8 (diff)
parent76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.4' with SCSI updates, needed for subsequent firewire-sbp2 changes
Linux 3.4
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 22000c3db0d..8d262b46757 100644
--- a/kernel/itimer.c
+++ b/kernel/itimer.c
@@ -284,8 +284,12 @@ 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)