[PATCH] Fix get_compat_sigevent() I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long. Anyways, obvious memset()'ing of incorrect pointer. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c index dad1065..ddfcaaa 100644 --- a/kernel/compat.c +++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ int get_compat_sigevent(struct sigevent *event, const struct compat_sigevent __user *u_event) { - memset(&event, 0, sizeof(*event)); + memset(event, 0, sizeof(*event)); return (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, u_event, sizeof(*u_event)) || __get_user(event->sigev_value.sival_int, &u_event->sigev_value.sival_int) ||