Both 32bit and 64bit versions of copy_thread() do memset(ptrace_bps) twice for no reason, kill the 2nd memset().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 4 +--- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c index c73b3c1..8f3ebfe 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) childregs; p->thread.sp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1); + memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps)); if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { /* kernel thread */ @@ -153,7 +154,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, childregs->cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl(); childregs->flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED; p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = NULL; - memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps)); return 0; } *childregs = *current_pt_regs(); @@ -168,8 +168,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, tsk = current; err = -ENOMEM; - memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps)); - if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) { p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmemdup(tsk->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 593257d..3ed4a68 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -192,8 +192,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, childregs->sp = sp; err = -ENOMEM; - memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps)); - if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) { p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmemdup(me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL); -- 1.5.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/