linux-kernel - [PATCH] selftests/resctrl: Fix null pointer dereference on open failed

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Date:   Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:15:36 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
To:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>,
        Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/resctrl: Fix null pointer dereference on open failed

Currently if opening /dev/null fails to open then file pointer fp
is null and further access to fp via fprintf will cause a null
pointer dereference. Fix this by returning a negative error value
when a null fp is detected.

Fixes: a2561b12fe39 ("selftests/resctrl: Add built in benchmark")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
index 51e5cf22632f..56ccbeae0638 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
@@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ static int fill_cache_read(unsigned char *start_ptr, unsigned char *end_ptr,
 
 	/* Consume read result so that reading memory is not optimized out. */
 	fp = fopen("/dev/null", "w");
-	if (!fp)
+	if (!fp) {
 		perror("Unable to write to /dev/null");
+		return -1;
+	}
 	fprintf(fp, "Sum: %d ", ret);
 	fclose(fp);
 
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