[patch 011/198] Fix get_compat_sigevent()

[akpm]

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long.  Anyways, obvious
memset()'ing of incorrect pointer.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---

 25-akpm/kernel/compat.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN kernel/compat.c~fix-get_compat_sigevent kernel/compat.c
--- 25/kernel/compat.c~fix-get_compat_sigevent	2005-04-12 03:21:06.070214088 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/kernel/compat.c	2005-04-12 03:21:06.074213480 -0700
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ long compat_sys_clock_nanosleep(clockid_
 int get_compat_sigevent(struct sigevent *event,
 		const struct compat_sigevent __user *u_event)
 {
-	memset(&event, 0, sizeof(*event));
+	memset(event, 0, sizeof(*event));
 	return (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, u_event, sizeof(*u_event)) ||
 		__get_user(event->sigev_value.sival_int,
 			&u_event->sigev_value.sival_int) ||
_
-
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