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authorAhmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at>2017-07-08 21:28:44 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-07-11 22:34:54 +0200
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parentMerge branch 'stmmac-dma-resources-fixes' (diff)
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net: Fix minor code bug in timestamping.txt
Passing (void*)val instead of &val would make a pointer out of an integer and cause sock_setsockopt to -EFAULT. See tools/testing/selftests/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c for a working example. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
index 196ba17cc344..1be0b6f9e0cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
@@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ timeval of SO_TIMESTAMP (ms).
Supports multiple types of timestamp requests. As a result, this
socket option takes a bitmap of flags, not a boolean. In
- err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, (void *) val,
- sizeof(val));
+ err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, &val, sizeof(val));
val is an integer with any of the following bits set. Setting other
bit returns EINVAL and does not change the current state.
@@ -249,8 +248,7 @@ setsockopt to receive timestamps:
__u32 val = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE |
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID /* or any other flag */;
- err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, (void *) val,
- sizeof(val));
+ err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, &val, sizeof(val));
1.4 Bytestream Timestamps