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authorPetr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>2013-03-14 01:16:53 +0100
committerPetr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>2013-03-14 01:16:53 +0100
commit58a1335e76a553e1cf4edeebc27f16fc9b53d6e6 (patch)
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Fix __times() handling of EFAULT when buf is NULL
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/times.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/times.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/times.c
index f3b5f01..e59bb4e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/times.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/times.c
@@ -26,13 +26,14 @@ __times (struct tms *buf)
INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
clock_t ret = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (times, err, 1, buf);
if (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (ret, err)
- && __builtin_expect (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (ret, err) == EFAULT, 0))
+ && __builtin_expect (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (ret, err) == EFAULT, 0)
+ && buf)
{
/* This might be an error or not. For architectures which have
no separate return value and error indicators we cannot
distinguish a return value of -1 from an error. Do it the
- hard way. We crash applications which pass in an invalid BUF
- pointer. */
+ hard way. We crash applications which pass in an invalid
+ non-NULL BUF pointer. Linux allows BUF to be NULL. */
#define touch(v) \
do { \
clock_t temp = v; \
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ __times (struct tms *buf)
touch (buf->tms_cutime);
touch (buf->tms_cstime);
- /* If we come here the memory is valid and the kernel did not
+ /* If we come here the memory is valid (or BUF is NULL, which is
+ * a valid condition for the kernel syscall) and the kernel did not
return an EFAULT error. Return the value given by the kernel. */
}