Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 1/6] pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> [ Upstream commit 208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69 ]
> 
> If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL.
> Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.

This fixes nothing. We have oom killer, so we don't have malloc
returning NULL.

Best regards,
								Pavel
								
> +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c
> @@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ FILE *prepare_output(const char *dirname)
>  struct config *prepare_default_config()
>  {
>  	struct config *config = malloc(sizeof(struct config));
> +	if (!config) {
> +		perror("malloc");
> +		return NULL;
> +	}
>  
>  	dprintf("loading defaults\n");
>  

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