[PATCH] Errenous use of memset and memcpy

Alexander Nyberg
2005-02-19T21:25:52Z

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);