diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cd2f6ed06e..c20954b053 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-10-31  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com>
+
+	[BZ #6919]
+	* posix/spawnattr_getschedparam.c (posix_spawnattr_getschedparam):
+	Fix length of copy operation.
+
 2008-10-02  Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
 
 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/eventfd.c (eventfd): Use the eventfd2 syscall
diff --git a/posix/spawnattr_getschedparam.c b/posix/spawnattr_getschedparam.c
index f33b622b2b..f714b2cfb1 100644
--- a/posix/spawnattr_getschedparam.c
+++ b/posix/spawnattr_getschedparam.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 2000, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ posix_spawnattr_getschedparam (const posix_spawnattr_t *attr,
 			       struct sched_param *schedparam)
 {
   /* Copy the scheduling parameters.  */
-  memcpy (schedparam, &attr->__sp, sizeof (*attr));
+  memcpy (schedparam, &attr->__sp, sizeof (attr->__sp));
 
   return 0;
 }