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Fix segfault in read_distance_table when no NUMA

PATCH New Ian Wienand 1 participant 1 message Jun 19, 2013

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PATCH 1/1 Fix segfault in read_distance_table when no NUMA

Hi

Debian bug #712692 reported a segfault on systems with no numa info. In this case, read_distance_table would exit with "0" which was not picked up as an error by numa_distance(), leading to a dereference of distance_table.

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 distance.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
distance.c +1 -3
index 4a26972..ec423c4 100755
@@ -58,15 +58,13 @@ static int read_distance_table(void)
 	int *table = NULL;
 	int err = -1;
 
-	for (nd = 0;; nd++) {
+	for (nd = 0; nd<maxnode; nd++) {
 		char fn[100];
 		FILE *dfh;
 		sprintf(fn, "/sys/devices/system/node/node%d/distance", nd);
 		dfh = fopen(fn, "r");
 		if (!dfh) {
 			if (errno == ENOENT)
-				err = 0;
-			if (!err && nd<maxnode)
 				continue;
 			else
 				break;
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