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authorJoe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>2004-12-02 15:47:19 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2004-12-02 15:47:19 -0800
commitac7e5c7145a6a96c71046f3379fd145bdabe8a78 (patch)
tree1fd09aa108f81976368ce5f651b65826123ced01 /kernel
parente681089e7a7701c99623f99761d1ca0f0143c6d6 (diff)
[PATCH] fix uninitialized variable in waitid(2)
Specify an initial value signal_struct's field stop_state whenever a signal_struct variable is created. Bug was discovered through the occasional failure of telnet(1) to connect. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f157ad672906..84252e055db4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ static inline int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * ts
sig->group_exit_code = 0;
sig->group_exit_task = NULL;
sig->group_stop_count = 0;
+ sig->stop_state = 0;
sig->curr_target = NULL;
init_sigpending(&sig->shared_pending);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->posix_timers);