This patch fixes utimes(somefile, NULL) syscalls on sparc64 kernel with
32-bit userland - use of uninitialized value resulted in making random
timestamps, which confused e.g. sudo.
It has been already fixed (by davem) in linux-2.6 tree 30 months ago.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Bogusz <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.4.31/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c.orig 2005-06-06 14:55:31.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.31/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c 2005-06-14 12:00:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -4267,7 +4267,7 @@
old_fs = get_fs();
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
- ret = sys_utimes(kfilename, &ktvs[0]);
+ ret = sys_utimes(kfilename, (tvs ? &ktvs[0] : NULL));
set_fs(old_fs);
putname(kfilename);
--
Jakub Bogusz http://qboosh.cs.net.pl/
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