From: Warren Xiong <warren.xiong@ugreen.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, shuah@kernel.org
Cc: david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org, liam@infradead.org,
vbabka@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
mhocko@suse.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Warren Xiong <warren.xiong@ugreen.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] selftests/mm: read memory information without popen
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 20:16:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1785845818-3131-1-git-send-email-warren.xiong@ugreen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1785720615-5826-1-git-send-email-warren.xiong@ugreen.com>
read_memory_info() invokes two shell pipelines to obtain MemFree and
Hugepagesize from /proc/meminfo. It does not check whether popen()
returns NULL before passing the result to fgets(), and it does not call
pclose() when fgets() fails.
Open /proc/meminfo directly and obtain both values in a single pass.
This removes the unchecked NULL path, closes the file on all paths, and
avoids dependencies on external commands.
The compaction test continues to pass after this change.
Signed-off-by: Warren Xiong <warren.xiong@ugreen.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Replace the two boolean flags with a hit counter, as suggested by
David Hildenbrand.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/1785720615-5826-1-git-send-email-warren.xiong@ugreen.com/
tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c | 38 +++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
index 5b58258..30d4ace 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
@@ -29,30 +29,34 @@ struct map_list {
int read_memory_info(unsigned long *memfree, unsigned long *hugepagesize)
{
- char buffer[256] = {0};
- char *cmd = "cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i memfree | grep -o '[0-9]*'";
- FILE *cmdfile = popen(cmd, "r");
+ char buffer[256];
+ int found = 0;
+ FILE *file;
+ int ret = -1;
- if (!(fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), cmdfile))) {
- ksft_print_msg("Failed to read meminfo: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ file = fopen("/proc/meminfo", "r");
+ if (!file) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Failed to open /proc/meminfo: %s\n",
+ strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
- pclose(cmdfile);
-
- *memfree = atoll(buffer);
- cmd = "cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i hugepagesize | grep -o '[0-9]*'";
- cmdfile = popen(cmd, "r");
-
- if (!(fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), cmdfile))) {
- ksft_print_msg("Failed to read meminfo: %s\n", strerror(errno));
- return -1;
+ while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), file) && found != 2) {
+ if (sscanf(buffer, "MemFree: %lu kB", memfree) == 1 ||
+ sscanf(buffer, "Hugepagesize: %lu kB", hugepagesize) == 1)
+ found++;
}
- pclose(cmdfile);
- *hugepagesize = atoll(buffer);
+ if (ferror(file))
+ ksft_print_msg("Failed to read /proc/meminfo: %s\n",
+ strerror(errno));
+ else if (found != 2)
+ ksft_print_msg("Failed to parse /proc/meminfo\n");
+ else
+ ret = 0;
- return 0;
+ fclose(file);
+ return ret;
}
int prereq(void)
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-04 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 1:30 [PATCH] selftests/mm: read memory information without popen Warren Xiong
2026-08-04 11:15 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-04 12:07 ` warren.xiong
2026-08-04 12:16 ` Warren Xiong [this message]
2026-08-04 12:21 ` [PATCH v2] " David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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