From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753859Ab3CKKPA (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:15:00 -0400 Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:54027 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753506Ab3CKKOv (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:14:51 -0400 Message-ID: <513DAE85.9010603@windriver.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:14:29 +0800 From: "tiejun.chen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Grad , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jason Wessel CC: , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH]->[PATCH v2] kgdb: Removed kmalloc returned value cast References: <1362955188-3023-1-git-send-email-alex.grad@gmail.com> <513D346E.20009@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <513D346E.20009@windriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [147.11.178.22] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 >> --- >> 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