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| author | Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> | 2012-10-11 02:54:04 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-11 03:50:15 +0400 |
| commit | 3e1aa66bd423950aa69c3d50d91818af1d16e0a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f9f0f6e2f396e7bf32978816c49e99a28855d56 /lib | |
| parent | 4ed134beee42a5c9fc4b439f1e498363066e2516 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3e1aa66bd423950aa69c3d50d91818af1d16e0a7.tar.xz | |
lib/kasprintf.c: use kmalloc_track_caller() to get accurate traces for kvasprintf
Previously kvasprintf() allocation was being done through kmalloc(),
thus producing an inaccurate trace report.
This is a common problem: in order to get accurate callsite tracing, a
lib/utils function shouldn't allocate kmalloc but instead use
kmalloc_track_caller.
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kasprintf.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kasprintf.c b/lib/kasprintf.c index ae0de80c1c88..32f12150fc4f 100644 --- a/lib/kasprintf.c +++ b/lib/kasprintf.c @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ char *kvasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list ap) len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, aq); va_end(aq); - p = kmalloc(len+1, gfp); + p = kmalloc_track_caller(len+1, gfp); if (!p) return NULL; |