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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-05-02 21:33:37 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-05-02 21:33:37 (GMT)
commiteb1574270a6de8fb8d31ffc3b021e30df0afcda3 (patch)
treed154ba369f222f5108ed1a2462d815d7faadc2e5 /kernel/itimer.c
parentaac10aaa8cc65a6fef6f5bc7d0b96035b0225a61 (diff)
parent69964ea4c7b68c9399f7977aa5b9aa6539a6a98a (diff)
downloadlinux-eb1574270a6de8fb8d31ffc3b021e30df0afcda3.tar.xz
Merge 3.4-rc5 into driver-core-next
This was done to resolve a merge issue with the init/main.c file. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 22000c3..8d262b4 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)