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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2012-04-19 17:06:26 -0300
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2012-04-19 17:06:26 -0300
commiteac0556750e727ff39144a9a9e59d5ccf1fc0e2a (patch)
treef5ccff7795b2ad5e47f17fb475599c526f533e79 /kernel/itimer.c
parentf71fa31f9f7ac33cba12b8897983f950ad2c7a5b (diff)
parent19853301ef3289bda2d5264c1093e74efddaeab9 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-eac0556750e727ff39144a9a9e59d5ccf1fc0e2a.tar.gz
Merge branch 'linus' into queue
Merge reason: development work has dependency on kvm patches merged upstream. Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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)