From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>

Clear the ht_opaque field in the hpet_register() function before searching for
a free timer to prevent the function from incorrectly assuming that the search
succeeded afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/char/hpet.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff -puN drivers/char/hpet.c~hpet-fix-uninitialized-variable-in-hpet_register drivers/char/hpet.c
--- devel/drivers/char/hpet.c~hpet-fix-uninitialized-variable-in-hpet_register	2005-10-11 18:09:02.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/char/hpet.c	2005-10-11 18:09:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -587,6 +587,8 @@ int hpet_register(struct hpet_task *tp, 
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	tp->ht_opaque = NULL;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&hpet_task_lock);
 	spin_lock(&hpet_lock);
 
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