[PATCH][next] refperf: avoid null pointer dereference when buf fails to allocate

[Colin King]

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently in the unlikely event that buf fails to be allocated it
is dereferenced a few times.  Use the errexit flag to determine if
buf should be written to to avoid the null pointer dereferences.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference after null check")
Fixes: f518f154ecef ("refperf: Dynamically allocate experiment-summary output buffer")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index d9291f883b54..952595c678b3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -546,9 +546,11 @@ static int main_func(void *arg)
 	// Print the average of all experiments
 	SCALEOUT("END OF TEST. Calculating average duration per loop (nanoseconds)...\n");
 
-	buf[0] = 0;
-	strcat(buf, "\n");
-	strcat(buf, "Runs\tTime(ns)\n");
+	if (!errexit) {
+		buf[0] = 0;
+		strcat(buf, "\n");
+		strcat(buf, "Runs\tTime(ns)\n");
+	}
 
 	for (exp = 0; exp < nruns; exp++) {
 		u64 avg;
-- 
2.27.0