commit 91d5989356325759503311df67e750b358ef4148 Author: Niklas Hambüchen Date: Thu Aug 8 22:02:27 2019 +0200 malloc: Fix missing accounting of top chunk in malloc_info [BZ #24026] Fixes ` incorrectly showing as 0 most of the time. The rest value being wrong is significant because to compute the actual amount of memory handed out via malloc, the user must subtract it from . That result being wrong makes investigating memory fragmentation issues like close to impossible. (cherry picked from commit b6d2c4475d5abc05dd009575b90556bdd3c78ad0) diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c index 4fc7f175fe42d6c6..fcf480acdaea1b86 100644 --- a/malloc/malloc.c +++ b/malloc/malloc.c @@ -5433,6 +5433,12 @@ __malloc_info (int options, FILE *fp) __libc_lock_lock (ar_ptr->mutex); + /* Account for top chunk. The top-most available chunk is + treated specially and is never in any bin. See "initial_top" + comments. */ + avail = chunksize (ar_ptr->top); + nblocks = 1; /* Top always exists. */ + for (size_t i = 0; i < NFASTBINS; ++i) { mchunkptr p = fastbin (ar_ptr, i);