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Diffstat (limited to 'xlators/storage')
| -rw-r--r-- | xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-helpers.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-helpers.c b/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-helpers.c index 2cf46669e57..5725cad7d92 100644 --- a/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-helpers.c +++ b/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-helpers.c @@ -266,6 +266,16 @@ _posix_xattr_get_set (dict_t *xattr_req, goto err; } + /* + * There could be a situation where the ia_size is + * zero. GF_CALLOC will return a pointer to the + * memory initialized by gf_mem_set_acct_info. + * This function adds a header and a footer to + * the allocated memory. The returned pointer + * points to the memory just after the header, but + * when size is zero, there is no space for user + * data. The memory can be freed by calling GF_FREE. + */ databuf = GF_CALLOC (1, filler->stbuf->ia_size, gf_posix_mt_char); if (!databuf) { |