linux-kernel - [PATCH] [cgroup/testing] cg_read_strcmp: Fix null pointer dereference

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Date:   Sat, 25 Jul 2020 21:37:57 -0400
From:   Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
To:     gaurav1086@...il.com, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org (open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK),
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] [cgroup/testing] cg_read_strcmp: Fix null pointer dereference

Haven't reproduced this issue. This PR is does a minor code cleanup. 

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
index 8a637ca7d73a..05853b0b8831 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ int cg_read_strcmp(const char *cgroup, const char *control,
 
 	/* Handle the case of comparing against empty string */
 	if (!expected)
-		size = 32;
+		return -1;
 	else
 		size = strlen(expected) + 1;
 
-- 
2.17.1