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kdb: A fix for kdb command table expansion

When locally adding in some additional kdb commands, I stumbled
across an issue with the dynamic expansion of the kdb command table.
When the number of kdb commands exceeds the size of the statically
allocated kdb_base_commands[] array, additional space is allocated in
the kdb_register_repeat() routine.

The unused portion of the newly allocated array was not being initialized
to zero properly and this would result in segfaults when help '?' was
executed or when a search for a non-existing command would traverse the
command table beyond the end of valid command entries and then attempt
to use the non-zeroed area as actual command entries.

Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
John Blackwood 12 years ago
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      kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c

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kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c

@@ -2739,7 +2739,7 @@ int kdb_register_repeat(char *cmd,
 			  (kdb_max_commands - KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX) * sizeof(*new));
 			kfree(kdb_commands);
 		}
-		memset(new + kdb_max_commands, 0,
+		memset(new + kdb_max_commands - KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX, 0,
 		       kdb_command_extend * sizeof(*new));
 		kdb_commands = new;
 		kp = kdb_commands + kdb_max_commands - KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX;