[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] power: fix use-after-free in pstate code

[Liang Ma]

Reviewed-by: Liang Ma <liangma at liangbit.com>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 03:56:42PM +0000, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Previous fix has addressed the incorrect handling of `base_frequency`
> file, but has added a use-after-free error due to the fact that all
> further code paths will lead to an `fclose()` call at the end, so the
> additional `fclose()` call right after processing the file was
> unnecessary.
> 
> Coverity issue: 369901
> 
> Fixes: 8a5febaac4f7 ("power: fix P-state base frequency handling")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_power/power_pstate_cpufreq.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_power/power_pstate_cpufreq.c b/lib/librte_power/power_pstate_cpufreq.c
> index 1cb0e4d917..ec745153d3 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_power/power_pstate_cpufreq.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_power/power_pstate_cpufreq.c
> @@ -220,7 +220,6 @@ power_init_for_setting_freq(struct pstate_power_info *pi)
>  
>  		base_ratio = strtoul(buf_base, NULL, POWER_CONVERT_TO_DECIMAL)
>  				/ BUS_FREQ;
> -		fclose(f_base);
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Add MSR read to detect turbo status */
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>