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@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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