Re: [PATCH 2/2] rbd: add an option for md5 checksumming (v2)

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 13:38, Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub
<yehuda.sadeh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Tommi Virtanen
> <tommi.virtanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:03, Christian Brunner <chb@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> +  if (buf) {
>>> +    dif = ofs-lastofs;
>>> +    if (dif > 0) {
>>> +      byte *tempbuf = (byte *) malloc(dif);
>>> +      memset(tempbuf, 0, dif);
>>> +      Hash->Update((const byte *) tempbuf, dif);
>>> +      free(tempbuf);
>>> +    }
>>> +
>>> +    Hash->Update((const byte *) buf, len);
>>> +    lastofs = ofs + len;
>>> +  }
>>
>> Does this mean a file with a 100GB hole in it will make you malloc(100GB)?
>>
> That's in the read_iterate() callback. It wouldn't be called with
> anything larger than a single block size.
>
> Unless I'm somehow missing, it's still missing the holes. Now it just
> ignores them, it should be taking them into account as zero data.

To my reading, that is *exactly* what the quoted code does -- it just
assumes that a hole can fit fully in RAM.
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