From: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
To: "Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>, "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] tools/nolibc: stop rounding malloc() sizes up to 4096 bytes
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:24:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260926152414.251214-2-danishkhateeb03@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260926152414.251214-1-danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
malloc() rounds the size of each mapping up to a multiple of 4096,
presumably to align it to a page boundary. But the page size is not 4096
on all architectures, and mmap() and munmap() round the length up to the
page size themselves.
Drop the rounding. As heap->len is no longer rounded up, growing a block
with realloc() now always creates a new mapping.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
---
tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h b/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h
index 6c3c620a04cf..dc554faff22a 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h
@@ -130,9 +130,7 @@ void *malloc(size_t len)
{
struct nolibc_heap *heap;
- /* Always allocate memory with size multiple of 4096. */
len = sizeof(*heap) + len;
- len = (len + 4095UL) & -4096UL;
heap = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE,
-1, 0);
if (__builtin_expect(heap == MAP_FAILED, 0))
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-26 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-26 15:24 [PATCH v2 0/2] tools/nolibc: check for overflow in malloc() Danish Khateeb
2026-09-26 15:24 ` Danish Khateeb [this message]
2026-09-26 15:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tools/nolibc: stop rounding malloc() sizes up to 4096 bytes Thomas Weißschuh
2026-09-26 17:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2026-09-26 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tools/nolibc: check for overflow in malloc() Danish Khateeb
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