linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] selftests/resctrl: Return NULL if malloc_and_init

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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:59:38 -0700
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
        Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] selftests/resctrl: Return NULL if
 malloc_and_init_memory() did not alloc mem

Hi Ilpo,

On 2/15/2023 5:05 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> malloc_and_init_memory() in fill_buf isn't checking if memalign()
> successfully allocated memory or not before accessing the memory.
> 
> Check the return value of memalign() and return NULL if allocating
> aligned memory fails.
> 
> Fixes: a2561b12fe39 ("selftests/resctrl: Add built in benchmark")
> Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
> ---

Thank you.

Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>

Reinette