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

From: Shuah

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 19:26:51 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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