[PATCH] tools/sched_ext: scx_flatcg: Fix uninitialized stats on allocation failure
[email protected] Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:18:08 +0800
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.sched-ext,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
From: Liang Luo <[email protected]> In fcg_read_stats(), the memset() that zeroes the output @stats array sits after the calloc() failure check. When calloc() fails, the function returns without writing @stats. The caller in main() declares acc_stats uninitialized, passes it as the @stats argument, and then reads it unconditionally: __u64 acc_stats[FCG_NR_STATS]; fcg_read_stats(skel, acc_stats); stats[i] = acc_stats[i] - last_stats[i]; // reads garbage Because fcg_read_stats() returns void, the caller cannot detect the failure. Reading the uninitialized array is undefined behavior, and the garbage is further copied into last_stats via memcpy(), corrupting the baseline used by the next interval. This regression was introduced by commit cabd76bbc036 ("tools/sched_ext: scx_flatcg: fix potential stack overflow from VLA in fcg_read_stats"), which replaced the VLA with calloc() and inserted the failure check before the existing memset(). Move the memset() above the calloc() failure check so @stats is always zeroed regardless of allocation outcome. Fixes: cabd76bbc036 ("tools/sched_ext: scx_flatcg: fix potential stack overflow from VLA in fcg_read_stats") Signed-off-by: Liang Luo <[email protected]> --- tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.c b/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.c index de2bef86d64d..7799782b76d1 100644 --- a/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.c +++ b/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.c @@ -105,12 +105,12 @@ static void fcg_read_stats(struct scx_flatcg *skel, __u64 *stats) __u64 *cnts; __u32 idx; + memset(stats, 0, sizeof(stats[0]) * FCG_NR_STATS); + cnts = calloc(skel->rodata->nr_cpus, sizeof(__u64)); if (!cnts) return; - memset(stats, 0, sizeof(stats[0]) * FCG_NR_STATS); - for (idx = 0; idx < FCG_NR_STATS; idx++) { int ret, cpu; -- 2.43.0