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SubjectRe: [PATCH]->[PATCH v2] kgdb: Removed kmalloc returned value cast
On 03/11/2013 09:33 AM, tiejun.chen wrote:
> On 03/11/2013 06:39 AM, Alex Grad wrote:
>> While at it, check kmalloc return value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Grad <alex.grad@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 5 ++++-
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
>> index 5ca82cd..9e81dd8 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
>> @@ -159,7 +159,10 @@ 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);
>> + if (!backup_current_thread_info)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> I already send a kgdb patchset in "[v3][PATCH 6/6] powerpc/kgdb: remove copying
> the thread_info" to remove these stuff since its unnecessary to copy current
> thread_info now.

I guess that patchset needs to be reviewed with more time and I also think I can
leave this copying to be compatible for other platforms in the future, but we
really should fix this problem I introduced right now. So I'd like to fix this
with DEFINE_PER_CPU.

I send a patch, "powerpc/kgdb: use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate kgdb's
thread_info", so please take a look at if that version is fine to every one.

Any comments are appreciated.

BTW, I will update that kgdb patchset with this change to resend.

Tiejun


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