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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2012-05-08 19:35:37 +0200
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2012-05-08 19:35:37 +0200
commit7b96c686223a5c902d6a59c7d178f3904f0ab757 (patch)
treefe328ed56ad3719de3cfebad72ef74e34f1ed92b /kernel/itimer.c
parentgpio: Move DT support code into drivers/gpio (diff)
parentLinux 3.4-rc6 (diff)
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Merge tag 'v3.4-rc6' into gpio/next
Linux 3.4-rc6
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 22000c3db0dd..8d262b467573 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)