[PATCH v2] selftests/mm: read memory information without popen
Warren Xiong <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 20:16:58 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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 <[email protected]> --- Changes in v2: - Replace the two boolean flags with a hit counter, as suggested by David Hildenbrand. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]/ 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