[PATCH] cpuset semaphore depth check deadlock fix

[linux-2.6] / kernel / params.c

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index d586c35ef8fca8f4540031c5ad071b90c1071df4..fbf173215fd217bed3db643ba0676916f7085daf 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -542,8 +542,8 @@ static void __init kernel_param_sysfs_setup(const char *name,
 {
        struct module_kobject *mk;
 
-       mk = kmalloc(sizeof(struct module_kobject), GFP_KERNEL);
-       memset(mk, 0, sizeof(struct module_kobject));
+       mk = kzalloc(sizeof(struct module_kobject), GFP_KERNEL);
+       BUG_ON(!mk);
 
        mk->mod = THIS_MODULE;
        kobj_set_kset_s(mk, module_subsys);