6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Zhongqiu Han quic_zhonhan@quicinc.com
[ Upstream commit 208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69 ]
If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL. Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219122715.3892223-1-quic_zhonhan@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Zhongqiu Han quic_zhonhan@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c b/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c index e63dc11fa3a53..48e25be6e1635 100644 --- a/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c @@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ FILE *prepare_output(const char *dirname) struct config *prepare_default_config() { struct config *config = malloc(sizeof(struct config)); + if (!config) { + perror("malloc"); + return NULL; + }
dprintf("loading defaults\n");