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| author | Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com> | 2013-01-14 07:26:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-01-29 10:18:15 +1100 |
| commit | fefd9e6f8860249b2c284d89cb2e51fa71a9503a (patch) | |
| tree | 4219d4cd14d7756fda204852171bc8ca1deb8eab /arch | |
| parent | 572177d7c77db1981ba2563e01478126482c43bc (diff) | |
powerpc: kernel/kgdb.c: Fix memory leakage
the variable backup_current_thread_info isn't freed before existing the
function.
Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c index c470a40b29f..a7bc7521c06 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -154,12 +154,12 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs) static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs) { struct thread_info *thread_info, *exception_thread_info; - struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info = \ - (struct thread_info *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info), GFP_KERNEL); + struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info; if (user_mode(regs)) return 0; + backup_current_thread_info = (struct thread_info *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info), GFP_KERNEL); /* * On Book E and perhaps other processors, singlestep is handled on * the critical exception stack. This causes current_thread_info() @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs) /* Restore current_thread_info lastly. */ memcpy(exception_thread_info, backup_current_thread_info, sizeof *thread_info); + kfree(backup_current_thread_info); return 1; } |