From: "David S. Miller" 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 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 2005-04-06 01:17:20.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/compat.c 2005-04-06 01:17:20.000000000 -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) || _