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From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Errenous use of memset and memcpy
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:25:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108848352.682.2.camel@boxen> (raw)

I stumbled across this, looks weird. Presumable fix is:

=== arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_signal.c 1.35 vs edited ==--- 1.35/arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_signal.c	2005-01-25 21:23:45 +01:00
+++ edited/arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_signal.c	2005-02-12 13:12:25 +01:00
@@ -460,10 +460,9 @@ __ia32_rt_sigsuspend (compat_sigset_t *s
 	sigset_t oldset, set;
 
 	scr->scratch_unat = 0;	/* avoid leaking kernel bits to user level */
-	memset(&set, 0, sizeof(&set));
+	memset(&set, 0, sizeof(sigset_t));
 
-	if (memcpy(&set.sig, &sset->sig, sigsetsize))
-		return -EFAULT;
+	memcpy(&set.sig, &sset->sig, sigsetsize);
 
 	sigdelsetmask(&set, ~_BLOCKABLE);
 



             reply	other threads:[~2005-02-19 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-19 21:25 Alexander Nyberg [this message]
2005-02-19 21:55 ` [PATCH] Errenous use of memset and memcpy Andreas Schwab
2005-02-20 10:38 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-02-22 17:37 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-03-03 20:53 ` Arun Sharma

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