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authorCong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>2013-01-14 07:26:32 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-01-29 10:18:15 +1100
commitfefd9e6f8860249b2c284d89cb2e51fa71a9503a (patch)
tree4219d4cd14d7756fda204852171bc8ca1deb8eab /arch
parent572177d7c77db1981ba2563e01478126482c43bc (diff)
downloadlinux-fefd9e6f8860249b2c284d89cb2e51fa71a9503a.tar.bz2
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.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
index c470a40b29f5..a7bc7521c064 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;
}