From: "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes" <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Baolin Wang" <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
"Nico Pache" <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
"Ryan Roberts" <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
"Dev Jain" <dev.jain@arm.com>, "Barry Song" <baohua@kernel.org>,
"Lance Yang" <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
"Usama Arif" <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>, "Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: khugepaged: remove str_dup() usage
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:57:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DKY08M715PGF.2383RIK7V6ONF@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825-remove_str_dup-v1-1-0ba2121a820c@kernel.org>
On Tue Aug 25, 2026 at 7:20 AM EDT, 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>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
--
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 11:20 [PATCH] selftests/mm: khugepaged: remove str_dup() usage David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-25 11:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 11:57 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2026-08-25 12:47 ` Lance Yang
2026-08-25 13:18 ` Dev Jain
2026-08-25 13:41 ` Usama Arif
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