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From: Andrea Cervesato via ltp <ltp@lists.linux.it>
To: linuxtestproject.agent@gmail.com
Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>, ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] memcg/memcontrol02: fix fd leak in cleanup path
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:41:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a799cc3.3b530373.1ff701.4966@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260807141849.4616-1-linuxtestproject.agent@gmail.com>

Hi Disha,

> > fd is initialized to 0 (a valid file descriptor) so the cleanup()
> > guard 'if (fd > -1)' would never trigger.
> 
> Could this explanation be corrected? Zero is greater than -1, and the
> cleanup guard is added by this patch rather than being an existing guard.
> The relevant problem is that -1 is needed to distinguish an unopened
> descriptor before cleanup tries to close it.
> 
> > +	if (fd > -1)
> > +		SAFE_CLOSE(fd);
> 
> Could this use `fd != -1` instead? LTP file descriptors use -1 as the
> invalid sentinel, and the LTP convention requires this form for cleanup
> guards.

this is correct.

> 
> --- [PATCH 2/2] ---
> 
> > #include <inttypes.h>
> >
> > -		tst_res(TINFO, "Child %d in %s: Allocating anon: %"PRIdPTR,
> > +		tst_res(TINFO, "Child %d in %s: Allocating anon: %zu",
> 
> Could the now-unused `<inttypes.h>` include be removed from both
> memcontrol03.c and memcontrol04.c? This patch replaces every `PRIdPTR`
> use in both files.

And also this is correct. We should split the patch in two: one for
memcontrol03 and one for memcontrol04

--
Andrea Cervesato
SUSE QE Automation Engineer Linux
andrea.cervesato@suse.com

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      reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-07 13:05 [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] memcg/memcontrol02: fix fd leak in cleanup path Disha Goel
2026-08-07 13:05 ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] memcg/memcontrol03-04: fix typos, redundant define and format specifiers Disha Goel
2026-08-07 14:18 ` [LTP] memcg/memcontrol02: fix fd leak in cleanup path linuxtestproject.agent
2026-08-10  9:41   ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp [this message]

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