[PATCH] malloc: Cleanup libc_realloc

Wilco Dijkstra Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Fri Jun 6 14:41:38 GMT 2025


Minor cleanup of libc_realloc: remove unnecessary special cases for mmap, move
ar_ptr initialization, first check for oldmem == NULL.

Passes regress, OK for commit?

---

diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
index c40b793f4a5d6b3b80e086f47a9ec72ad62b6526..2bff37e6e55e58e56b3a7530682bd5f9b0dc1966 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc/malloc.c
@@ -3464,17 +3464,17 @@ __libc_realloc (void *oldmem, size_t bytes)
 
   void *newp;             /* chunk to return */
 
+  /* realloc of null is supposed to be same as malloc */
+  if (oldmem == NULL)
+    return __libc_malloc (bytes);
+
 #if REALLOC_ZERO_BYTES_FREES
-  if (bytes == 0 && oldmem != NULL)
+  if (bytes == 0)
     {
       __libc_free (oldmem); return NULL;
     }
 #endif
 
-  /* realloc of null is supposed to be same as malloc */
-  if (oldmem == NULL)
-    return __libc_malloc (bytes);
-
   /* Perform a quick check to ensure that the pointer's tag matches the
      memory's tag.  */
   if (__glibc_unlikely (mtag_enabled))
@@ -3492,19 +3492,13 @@ __libc_realloc (void *oldmem, size_t bytes)
   if (bytes <= usable)
     {
       size_t difference = usable - bytes;
-      if ((unsigned long) difference < 2 * sizeof (INTERNAL_SIZE_T)
-	  || (chunk_is_mmapped (oldp) && difference <= GLRO (dl_pagesize)))
+      if ((unsigned long) difference < 2 * sizeof (INTERNAL_SIZE_T))
 	return oldmem;
     }
 
   /* its size */
   const INTERNAL_SIZE_T oldsize = chunksize (oldp);
 
-  if (chunk_is_mmapped (oldp))
-    ar_ptr = NULL;
-  else
-    ar_ptr = arena_for_chunk (oldp);
-
   /* Little security check which won't hurt performance: the allocator
      never wraps around at the end of the address space.  Therefore
      we can exclude some size values which might appear here by
@@ -3551,6 +3545,8 @@ __libc_realloc (void *oldmem, size_t bytes)
       return newmem;
     }
 
+  ar_ptr = arena_for_chunk (oldp);
+
   if (SINGLE_THREAD_P)
     {
       newp = _int_realloc (ar_ptr, oldp, oldsize, nb);



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