On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Alex Grad <alex.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alex Grad <alex.g...@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> index 5ca82cd..c1eef24 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs)
> if (user_mode(regs))
> return 0;
>
> - backup_current_thread_info = (struct thread_info
> *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + backup_current_thread_info = kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info),
> GFP_KERNEL);
Looks good to me.
There's two additional problems in the kgdb_singlestep() function: it
doesn't check if the kmalloc() call fails nor does it kfree() the
allocated memory.
Pekka
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