linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 02/19] selftests/resctrl: Don't leak buffer in fill

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Message-Id: <20230717131507.32420-3-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:14:50 +0300
From:   Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...fujitsu.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@...el.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 02/19] selftests/resctrl: Don't leak buffer in fill_cache()

The error path in fill_cache() does return before the allocated buffer
is freed leaking the buffer.

The leak was introduced when fill_cache_read() started to return errors
in commit c7b607fa9325 ("selftests/resctrl: Fix null pointer
dereference on open failed"), before that both fill functions always
returned 0.

Move free() earlier to prevent the mem leak.

Fixes: c7b607fa9325 ("selftests/resctrl: Fix null pointer dereference on open failed")
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
index 341cc93ca84c..3b328c844896 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
@@ -177,12 +177,13 @@ fill_cache(unsigned long long buf_size, int malloc_and_init, int memflush,
 	else
 		ret = fill_cache_write(start_ptr, end_ptr, resctrl_val);
 
+	free(startptr);
+
 	if (ret) {
 		printf("\n Error in fill cache read/write...\n");
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	free(startptr);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.30.2