* [PATCH] rust: alloc: add test for realloc with zero size acting as free
@ 2026-04-24 5:29 Hsiu Che Yu
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From: Hsiu Che Yu @ 2026-04-24 5:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Danilo Krummrich
Cc: Hsiu Che Yu, Lorenzo Stoakes, Vlastimil Babka, Liam R. Howlett,
Uladzislau Rezki, Miguel Ojeda, Boqun Feng, Gary Guo,
Björn Roy Baron, Benno Lossin, Andreas Hindborg, Alice Ryhl,
Trevor Gross, rust-for-linux, linux-kernel
The `Allocator` trait documents that reallocating with a target size of
zero must be equivalent to freeing the memory:
"If the requested size is zero, `realloc` behaves equivalent
to `free`."
Add unit test to verify that `KMalloc`, `Vmalloc`, and `KVmalloc` all
conform to this contract.
Signed-off-by: Hsiu Che Yu <yu.whisper.personal@gmail.com>
---
rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
index 63bfb91b3671..6120587db205 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
@@ -305,4 +305,23 @@ fn is_aligned_to(&self, align: usize) -> bool {
Ok(())
}
+
+ #[test]
+ fn test_realloc_zero_size_is_free() -> Result {
+ const INIT_SIZE: usize = 64;
+
+ let old = Layout::from_size_align(INIT_SIZE, 1).unwrap();
+ let new = Layout::from_size_align(0, 1).unwrap();
+
+ let ptr = unsafe { Kmalloc::realloc(None, new, old, GFP_KERNEL, NumaNode::NO_NODE)? };
+ assert_eq!(ptr.len(), 0);
+
+ let ptr = unsafe { Vmalloc::realloc(None, new, old, GFP_KERNEL, NumaNode::NO_NODE)? };
+ assert_eq!(ptr.len(), 0);
+
+ let ptr = unsafe { KVmalloc::realloc(None, new, old, GFP_KERNEL, NumaNode::NO_NODE)? };
+ assert_eq!(ptr.len(), 0);
+
+ Ok(())
+ }
}
--
2.43.0
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