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authorKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>2012-06-14 14:20:18 +0300
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>2012-06-14 14:44:49 +0300
commitd987dd137bac8dca9b0015763d3106f48bb8a596 (patch)
treeef887505b3c904c548d58ec9bb6f4970a0877042 /kernel/itimer.c
parentath6kl: fix fw capability parsing (diff)
parentMerge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless (diff)
Merge remote branch 'wireless-next/master' into ath6kl-next
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
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)