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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/itimer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/itimer.c | 8 |
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) |