This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kselftest: arm64: Add a null pointer check
to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kselftest-arm64-add-a-null-pointer-check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a816739c7f06109f1d8709e123d6daa7912da43f
Author: Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 23 16:21:02 2024 +0800
kselftest: arm64: Add a null pointer check
[ Upstream commit 80164282b3620a3cb73de6ffda5592743e448d0e ]
There is a 'malloc' call, which can be unsuccessful.
This patch will add the malloc failure checking
to avoid possible null dereference and give more information
about test fail reasons.
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423082102.2018886-1-chentao@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/tags_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/tags_test.c
index 5701163460ef7..955f87c1170d7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/tags_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/tags_test.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include <sys/utsname.h>
+#include "../../kselftest.h"
#define SHIFT_TAG(tag) ((uint64_t)(tag) << 56)
#define SET_TAG(ptr, tag) (((uint64_t)(ptr) & ~SHIFT_TAG(0xff)) | \
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ int main(void)
if (prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE, 0, 0, 0) == 0)
tbi_enabled = 1;
ptr = (struct utsname *)malloc(sizeof(*ptr));
+ if (!ptr)
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to allocate utsname buffer\n");
+
if (tbi_enabled)
tag = 0x42;
ptr = (struct utsname *)SET_TAG(ptr, tag);
