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Re: do_gettimeofday() system crash


Hi Oliver,

> I insmod a kernel module which calls do_gettimeofday in the following
> way:
> 
>     struct timeval *timecount;
>     do_gettimeofday(timecount);
> 
> This causes a segmentation fault

Is this all the relevant code?  timecount is pointing somewhere random.
Try

    struct timeval timecount;
    do_gettimeofday(&timecount);


Ralph.

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