Re: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign()

[Muhammad Usama Anjum]

On 4/13/23 6:02 AM, Deming Wang wrote:
> memalign() is obsolete according to its manpage.
> 
> Replace memalign() with posix_memalign() and remove malloc.h include
> that was there for memalign().
Thanks for the patch.

> 
> As a pointer is passed into posix_memalign(), initialize *s to NULL
I'm unable to find this initialization below. Did you really mean to add
the initialization?

> to silence a warning about the function's return value being used as
> uninitialized (which is not valid anyway because the error is properly
> checked before s is returned).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deming Wang <wangdeming@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/strlen.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/strlen.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/strlen.c
> index 9055ebc484d0..f9c1f9cc2d32 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/strlen.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/strlen.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -#include <malloc.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  #include <string.h>
>  #include <time.h>
> @@ -51,10 +50,11 @@ static void bench_test(char *s)
>  static int testcase(void)
>  {
>  	char *s;
> +	int ret;
>  	unsigned long i;
>  
> -	s = memalign(128, SIZE);
> -	if (!s) {
> +	ret = posix_memalign((void **)&s, 128, SIZE);
> +	if (ret < 0) {
Can we do if (!ret) instead? The page says:
posix_memalign()  returns zero on success.
>  		perror("memalign");
>  		exit(1);
>  	}

-- 
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum