Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 22:15:36 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix sys_prctl() returned uninitialized value |
On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:01:17 -0700 "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org> wrote:
> this is the default expected by the subsequent switch ().
>
oh gawd.
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> index 895d2d4..cb25a64 100644
> --- a/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -1657,6 +1657,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
> if (security_task_prctl(option, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, &error))
> return error;
All along I was believing that it was _this_ return which was causing
the problem.
> + error = 0;
> +
> switch (option) {
> case PR_SET_PDEATHSIG:
> if (!valid_signal(arg2)) {
But now I see it.
This was a hard way to write a changelog.
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