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From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
To: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	 linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tools/nolibc: stop rounding malloc() sizes up to 4096 bytes
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:50:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d64fa7c0-e853-42ba-be3d-11a236c5182b@t-8ch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260926152414.251214-2-danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>

On 2026-09-26 10:24:13-0500, Danish Khateeb wrote:
> 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.

The series looks good to me, but I want to hear from Willy before
applying it.

> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>

I'll add a Suggested-by here when applying.

> ---
>  tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

(...)

  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-26 15:50 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 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tools/nolibc: stop rounding malloc() sizes up to 4096 bytes Danish Khateeb
2026-09-26 15:50   ` Thomas Weißschuh [this message]
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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