From: Petr Holasek <pholasek@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch is based on BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707138 where too big argument for numademo caused segfault. Only simple check of returned pointer from numa_alloc* calls was added. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@xxxxxxxxxx> -- diff -up numactl-2.0.7/numademo.c.origin numactl-2.0.7/numademo.c --- numactl-2.0.7/numademo.c.origin 2011-08-18 06:40:56.617884667 -0400 +++ numactl-2.0.7/numademo.c 2011-08-18 06:38:15.783759565 -0400 @@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ void memtest(char *name, unsigned char * int i; char title[128], result[128]; + if (!mem) { + fprintf(stderr,"Failed to allocate %lu bytes of memory. Test \"%s\" exits.\n", msize, name); + return; + } + #ifdef HAVE_STREAM_LIB if (thistest == STREAM) { do_stream(name, mem); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
