C: MPI_ERR_BUFFER: invalid buffer pointer Open MPI

Question

I'm studying for an exam at university about parallel programming with Open MPI. I'm trying to read a file with the master process (rank 0) and send some data to all workers processes, but I get a runtime error that I'm not able to solve. The error is:

An error occurred in MPI_Recv
reported by process [724303873,11]
on communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
MPI_ERR_BUFFER: invalid buffer pointer
MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (processes in this communicator will now abort,
and MPI will try to terminate your MPI job as well)

My code is the following:

//Compute the number of executor processes//
int activeCores(long long int txt_size, long long int pat_size, int cores){

    int executors = cores;

    for (int i = 0; i < cores; ++i)
    {
        if (txt_size/executors < pat_size)
        {
            executors = cores - i;
        } else {
            break;
        }
    }
    return executors;
}




int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    
    //SOME VARIABLES...
    int rank;
    int size;
    //long long int patlen;
    char *text;
    char *pattern;
    long long int occurrences = 0;
    long long int total_occ = 0;
    int ex_size;
    int active = 0;                         // indicates if a core is active or not. Inititally all cores are disabled
    MPI_File text_handler;
    MPI_File pattern_handler;
    MPI_Offset txt_size;    //total dimension of the file
    MPI_Offset pat_size;
    char *chunk;
    long long int chunk_length;

    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);
    int flags[size];

    clock_t begin = clock();



//reading routine

    if (rank == 0)
    {
    

    MPI_File_open(MPI_COMM_SELF, argv[1], MPI_MODE_RDONLY, MPI_INFO_NULL, &text_handler);
    MPI_File_open(MPI_COMM_SELF, argv[2], MPI_MODE_RDONLY, MPI_INFO_NULL, &pattern_handler);
    MPI_File_get_size(pattern_handler, &pat_size);
    MPI_File_get_size(text_handler, &txt_size);

    pattern = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char)*pat_size + 1);
    text = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char)*txt_size + 1);

    MPI_File_read(pattern_handler, pattern, pat_size, MPI_CHAR, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);
    MPI_File_read(text_handler, text, txt_size, MPI_CHAR, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);
    
    text[txt_size] = '\0';
    pattern[pat_size] = '\0';

    MPI_File_close(&text_handler);
    MPI_File_close(&pattern_handler);

    ex_size = activeCores(txt_size, pat_size, size);

    if (ex_size == 0)
        {
            printf("The length of the pattern is bigger than the dimension of the text\n");
            MPI_Finalize();
            exit(-1);
        }

    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i)
    {
        if (i<ex_size)
        {
            flags[i] = 1;
        } else flags[i] = 0;
    }

    chunk_length = txt_size/ex_size;

    }

    //send flag to all processes
    MPI_Scatter(flags, 1, MPI_INT, &active, 1, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
    MPI_Bcast(&chunk_length, 1, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
    MPI_Bcast(&txt_size, 1, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
    MPI_Bcast(&ex_size, 1, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);


// splitting text routine

    if (rank == 0 && active == 1)
    {
        chunk = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * (chunk_length +1));
        chunk = strncpy(chunk, text, chunk_length);
        chunk[chunk_length]='\0';

        long long int start = 0;
        long long int stop;

        for (int i = 1; i < ex_size; ++i)
        {
            if (i<ex_size-1)
            {
                MPI_Send(&text[chunk_length*i], chunk_length, MPI_CHAR, i, 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
            } else if (i == ex_size-1)
            {
                MPI_Send(&text[chunk_length*i], txt_size-i*chunk_length, MPI_CHAR, i, 2, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
            }
        }
    }


    if (rank > 0 && rank < ex_size-1)
    {
        chunk = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char)*chunk_length);
        MPI_Recv(chunk, chunk_length, MPI_CHAR, 0, 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);
        chunk[chunk_length]='\0';
    }

    if (rank == ex_size-1)
    {
        chunk = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char)*(txt_size - rank*chunk_length +1));
        chunk[txt_size - rank*chunk_length]='\0';
        MPI_Recv(chunk, txt_size-rank*chunk_length, MPI_CHAR, 0, 2, MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);
    }


    

    //CLOSE THE MPI LAYER
    MPI_Finalize();

    //STOP COUNTING CLOCK CYCLES
    clock_t end = clock();
    
    if (rank == 0)
    {
        //COMPUTING THE TIME SPENT
        double time_spent = (double)(end - begin) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
        printf("Total occurrences %d\n", total_occ);
        printf("time required %lf\n", time_spent);
        printf("Program executed by %d cores over %d\n", ex_size, size);

    }

    return 0;
}

Please, someone can help me? Thank you very much guys

I'm implementing a parallel version of Rabin-karp algorithm but I'm stuck because of this error and I cannot proceed. I tried to use different functions as Bsend because I read that is more "safe" and often avoid this type of error but I didn't succeed.