5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2d320b1029ee7329ee0638181be967789775b962 ] 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 commit 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> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 c20d0a7ecbe63..ab1d91328d67b 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c @@ -184,12 +184,13 @@ 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; } -- 2.40.1