linux-kernel - [S390] Initialize interval value to 0.

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Message-ID: <20061026090141.GA16270@skybase>
Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:01:41 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, geraldsc@...ibm.com
Subject: [S390] Initialize interval value to 0.

From: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@...ibm.com>

[S390] Initialize interval value to 0.

sscanf() could leave the interval value unchanged in which case it
would be used uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
---

 arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c
--- linux-2.6/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c	2006-10-26 10:43:38.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c	2006-10-26 10:44:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ appldata_interval_handler(ctl_table *ctl
 	if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, len > sizeof(buf) ? sizeof(buf) : len)) {
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
+	interval = 0;
 	sscanf(buf, "%i", &interval);
 	if (interval <= 0) {
 		P_ERROR("Timer CPU interval has to be > 0!\n");
-
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