From: Michael Neuling Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:11:51 +0000 (+1100) Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: RTC memory corruption X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16~24^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e8ed479125a6d246e17cfe6c24e140bfeb01972 [PATCH] powerpc: RTC memory corruption We should be memset'ing the data we are pointing to, not the pointer itself. This is in an error path so we probably don't hit it much. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-rtc.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-rtc.c index 635d3b9a881..34d073fb609 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-rtc.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-rtc.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ void rtas_get_rtc_time(struct rtc_time *rtc_tm) error = rtas_call(rtas_token("get-time-of-day"), 0, 8, ret); if (error == RTAS_CLOCK_BUSY || rtas_is_extended_busy(error)) { if (in_interrupt() && printk_ratelimit()) { - memset(&rtc_tm, 0, sizeof(struct rtc_time)); + memset(rtc_tm, 0, sizeof(struct rtc_time)); printk(KERN_WARNING "error: reading clock" " would delay interrupt\n"); return; /* delay not allowed */