Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: khugepaged: remove str_dup() usage

[Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>]

On 25/08/26 4:50 pm, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> We don't check str_dup() return value and never free it. While both
> things are irrelevant in practice, let's just clean it up by working on
> argv[0] directly and avoiding the str_dup().
> 
> Nobody after us needs these parts of the argv[0] string anyway.
> 
> This patch is inspired by previous work from Anshuman Tewari [1].
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260821114416.12255-1-anshumantewari123@gmail.com [1]
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> ---

LGTM

Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>


>  tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 1d2d6bd72fd2a..83d27d069c413 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ static void parse_test_type(int argc, char **argv)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	buf = strdup(argv[0]);
> +	buf = argv[0];
>  	token = strsep(&buf, ":");
>  
>  	if (!strcmp(token, "all")) {
> 
> ---
> 
> base-commit: 169393fff5d1ec2690934067eeb95544ff5ebdd7
> 
> change-id: 20260825-remove_str_dup-bb089e93094f
> 
> --
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David