Re: [PATCH] cpupower/debug/i386: check mmap return value in main

[Shuah <shuah@kernel.org>]

On 6/28/26 21:11, longlong yan wrote:
> The return value of mmap() is not checked. On failure mmap() returns
> MAP_FAILED, not NULL. If mmap() fails, the subsequent for-loop
> dereferences the invalid pointer (MAP_FAILED), causing a segfault.
> 
> Add a check for MAP_FAILED after mmap(), consistent with the existing
> error handling style for open() in the same function.
> 
> Fixes: 7fe2f6399a84 ("cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features")
> Signed-off-by: longlong yan <yanlonglong@kylinos.cn>
> ---
>   tools/power/cpupower/debug/i386/dump_psb.c | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/debug/i386/dump_psb.c b/tools/power/cpupower/debug/i386/dump_psb.c
> index 6fb81b42ea61..9da519200433 100644
> --- a/tools/power/cpupower/debug/i386/dump_psb.c
> +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/debug/i386/dump_psb.c
> @@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
>   
>   	mem = mmap(mem, 0x100000 - 0xc0000, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0xc0000);
>   	close(fd);
> +	
> +	if (mem == MAP_FAILED) {
> +		printf ("Couldn't mmap /dev/mem\n");
> +		exit(1);
> +	}
>   
>   	for (p = mem; p - mem < LEN; p+=16) {
>   		if (memcmp(p, "AMDK7PNOW!", 10) == 0) {

Thank you for the patch. Sorry for a late response.

Please send v2 after fixing checkpatch errors and warnings.

thanks,
-- Shuah