From 58db5785b0d76be4582a32a7900acce88e691d36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:38:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] refperf: Avoid null pointer dereference when buf fails to allocate Currently in the unlikely event that buf fails to be allocated it is dereferenced a few times. Use the errexit flag to determine if buf should be written to to avoid the null pointer dereferences. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference after null check") Fixes: f518f154ecef ("refperf: Dynamically allocate experiment-summary output buffer") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c index d9291f883b54..952595c678b3 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c @@ -546,9 +546,11 @@ static int main_func(void *arg) // Print the average of all experiments SCALEOUT("END OF TEST. Calculating average duration per loop (nanoseconds)...\n"); - buf[0] = 0; - strcat(buf, "\n"); - strcat(buf, "Runs\tTime(ns)\n"); + if (!errexit) { + buf[0] = 0; + strcat(buf, "\n"); + strcat(buf, "Runs\tTime(ns)\n"); + } for (exp = 0; exp < nruns; exp++) { u64 avg; -- 2.20.1