bpf, xdp, samples: Fix null pointer dereference in *_user code

Memset on the pointer right after malloc can cause a NULL pointer
deference if it failed to allocate memory. A simple fix is to
replace malloc()/memset() pair with a simple call to calloc().

Fixes: 0fca931a6f21 ("samples/bpf: program demonstrating access to xdp_rxq_info")
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_user.c b/samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_user.c
index dd558cbb2309..ef53b93db573 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_user.c
+++ b/samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_user.c
@@ -509,11 +509,8 @@ static void *alloc_rec_per_cpu(int record_size)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_cpus = bpf_num_possible_cpus();
 	void *array;
-	size_t size;
 
-	size = record_size * nr_cpus;
-	array = malloc(size);
-	memset(array, 0, size);
+	array = calloc(nr_cpus, record_size);
 	if (!array) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error (nr_cpus:%u)\n", nr_cpus);
 		exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);
@@ -528,8 +525,7 @@ static struct stats_record *alloc_stats_record(void)
 	int i;
 
 	/* Alloc main stats_record structure */
-	rec = malloc(sizeof(*rec));
-	memset(rec, 0, sizeof(*rec));
+	rec = calloc(1, sizeof(*rec));
 	if (!rec) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error\n");
 		exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);