Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | John Stultz <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/3] alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversal | Date | Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:43:34 -0700 |
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We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so correct this.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> --- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 7 ++----- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c index 59f369f..1dee3f6 100644 --- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c @@ -479,11 +479,8 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags, if (!rtcdev) return -ENOTSUPP; - /* Save old values */ - old_setting->it_interval = - ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.period); - old_setting->it_value = - ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.node.expires); + if (old_setting) + alarm_timer_get(timr, old_setting); /* If the timer was already set, cancel it */ alarm_cancel(&timr->it.alarmtimer); -- 1.7.3.2.146.gca209
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