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[v5,02/19] selftests/resctrl: Don't leak buffer in fill_cache()

Message ID 20230717131507.32420-3-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Series selftests/resctrl: Fixes and cleanups | expand

Commit Message

Ilpo Järvinen July 17, 2023, 1:14 p.m. UTC 
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@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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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;
 }