[PATCH v2.1 ] Fix VDSO gettimeofday() when called with NULL struct timeval.

Tony Breeds tony at bakeyournoodle.com
Tue Jul 3 09:20:44 EST 2007


On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:49:50PM -0500, Will Schmidt wrote:
> 
> The vdso64 portion of patch 74609f4536f2b8fd6a48381bbbe3cd37da20a527 for
> fixing problems with NULL gettimeofday input mistakenly checks for a
> null tz field twice, when it should be checking for null tz once, and
> null tv once; by way of a r10/r11 typo. 
> 
> Any application calling gettimeofday(&tv,NULL) will "fail".
> 
> This corrects that typo, and makes my G5 happy.

Ooops thanks Will!

The /really/ sad thing is I got it right in the first version of the
patch :(

Yours Tony

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