From: I Viswanath <viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com>
To: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
vbabka@suse.cz, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
mhocko@suse.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev,
I Viswanath <viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/mm: use calloc instead of malloc in pagemap_ioctl.c
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:36:43 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250825170643.63174-1-viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com> (raw)
As per Documentation/process/deprecated.rst, dynamic size calculations
should not be performed in memory allocator arguments due to possible
overflows.
Replaced malloc with calloc to avoid open-ended arithmetic
and prevent possible overflows.
Signed-off-by: I Viswanath <viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com>
---
Even though the arguments are small enough an overflow cannot happen,
I think it's still better to follow kernel standard practices.
tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c | 24 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c
index 0d4209eef0c3..4e6b815e96b2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ int userfaultfd_tests(void)
wp_addr_range(mem, mem_size);
vec_size = mem_size/page_size;
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
written = pagemap_ioctl(mem, mem_size, vec, 1, PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING | PM_SCAN_CHECK_WPASYNC,
vec_size - 2, PAGE_IS_WRITTEN, 0, 0, PAGE_IS_WRITTEN);
@@ -247,11 +247,11 @@ int sanity_tests_sd(void)
vec_size = num_pages/2;
mem_size = num_pages * page_size;
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
if (!vec)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("error nomem\n");
- vec2 = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec2 = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
if (!vec2)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("error nomem\n");
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ int sanity_tests_sd(void)
mem_size = 1050 * page_size;
vec_size = mem_size/(page_size*2);
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
if (!vec)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("error nomem\n");
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ int sanity_tests_sd(void)
mem_size = 10000 * page_size;
vec_size = 50;
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
if (!vec)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("error nomem\n");
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ int sanity_tests_sd(void)
vec_size = 1000;
mem_size = vec_size * page_size;
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
if (!vec)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("error nomem\n");
@@ -695,8 +695,8 @@ int base_tests(char *prefix, char *mem, unsigned long long mem_size, int skip)
}
vec_size = mem_size/page_size;
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
- vec2 = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
+ vec2 = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
/* 1. all new pages must be not be written (dirty) */
written = pagemap_ioctl(mem, mem_size, vec, 1, PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING | PM_SCAN_CHECK_WPASYNC,
@@ -807,8 +807,8 @@ int hpage_unit_tests(void)
unsigned long long vec_size = map_size/page_size;
struct page_region *vec, *vec2;
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
- vec2 = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
+ vec2 = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
if (!vec || !vec2)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("malloc failed\n");
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ int unmapped_region_tests(void)
void *start = (void *)0x10000000;
int written, len = 0x00040000;
long vec_size = len / page_size;
- struct page_region *vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ struct page_region *vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
/* 1. Get written pages */
written = pagemap_ioctl(start, len, vec, vec_size, 0, 0,
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ int sanity_tests(void)
mem_size = 10 * page_size;
vec_size = mem_size / page_size;
- vec = malloc(sizeof(struct page_region) * vec_size);
+ vec = calloc(vec_size, sizeof(struct page_region));
mem = mmap(NULL, mem_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
if (mem == MAP_FAILED || vec == MAP_FAILED)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("error nomem\n");
--
2.50.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-08-25 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-25 17:06 I Viswanath [this message]
2025-08-25 18:56 ` [PATCH] selftests/mm: use calloc instead of malloc in pagemap_ioctl.c Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2025-08-25 19:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-26 4:41 ` Donet Tom
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