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 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
