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(-)
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; }