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The amount of memory to allocate from the system for heap expansion was calculated in a way that may yield one page more than needed. This could hit the allocation limit from the system or EAL. The allocation would fail despite enough memory being available. In response to mail: https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CAEYuUWCnRZNwxiOHEeTHw0Gy9aFJRLZtvAG9g=smuUvUEMcFXg@mail.gmail.com/ A reproducer has been provided by Dmitry, see: https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20220922015212.03bfde66@sovereign/ Fixes: 07dcbfe0101f ("malloc: support multiprocess memory hotplug") Cc: stable@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Fidaullah Noonari <fidaullah.noonari@emumba.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
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