[Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures

Vijay Bellur vbellur at redhat.com
Tue Apr 30 11:31:12 UTC 2013


On 04/30/2013 06:10 AM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
> On 04/29/2013 01:38 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>> There are a lot of places where we make an
>> implicit assumption that GF_CALLOC and the likes memset the memory area
>> to zero.
>
> Actually I was a bit disturbed recently when I found that at least one
> member of that family (don't remember which) *doesn't* do that.  I meant
> to go through and check which code relied on that unmet assumption, but
> then something else came up and I never got back to it.
>
>

I did a quick scan of mem-pool.c but failed to notice anything obvious. 
If you happen to notice it again, it should be worth a patch.

-Vijay





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