Commit 7522e4ec authored Oct 30, 2005 by Clemens Ladisch Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 30, 2005

[PATCH] hpet: fix uninitialized variable in hpet_register()



Clear the ht_opaque field in the hpet_register() function before searching for
a free timer to prevent the function from incorrectly assuming that the search
succeeded afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent af95eade

drivers/char/hpet.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -587,6 +587,8 @@ int hpet_register(struct hpet_task *tp, int periodic)
		return -EINVAL;
		}

		tp->ht_opaque = NULL;

		spin_lock_irq(&hpet_task_lock);
		spin_lock(&hpet_lock);