In current implementation, reserve_diskspace use the buffer as large as the space that needs to be reserved. The space is reserved for PT_LOAD. Theoretically the size of the whole PT_LOAD can be very large. So it's necessary to make reserve_diskspace use a limited size of memory. Signed-off-by: Zhou wenjian <zhouwj-fnst at cn.fujitsu.com> --- makedumpfile.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c index 88e3389..f7f1f77 100644 --- a/makedumpfile.c +++ b/makedumpfile.c @@ -3801,7 +3801,8 @@ read_flat_data_header(struct makedumpfile_data_header *fdh) int reserve_diskspace(int fd, off_t start_offset, off_t end_offset, char *file_name) { - size_t buf_size; + off_t off; + size_t buf_size, write_size; char *buf = NULL; int ret = FALSE; @@ -3809,6 +3810,7 @@ reserve_diskspace(int fd, off_t start_offset, off_t end_offset, char *file_name) assert(start_offset < end_offset); buf_size = end_offset - start_offset; + buf_size = MIN(info->page_size, buf_size); if ((buf = malloc(buf_size)) == NULL) { ERRMSG("Can't allocate memory for the size of reserved diskspace. %s\n", strerror(errno)); @@ -3816,8 +3818,15 @@ reserve_diskspace(int fd, off_t start_offset, off_t end_offset, char *file_name) } memset(buf, 0, buf_size); - if (!write_buffer(fd, start_offset, buf, buf_size, file_name)) - goto out; + off = start_offset; + + while (off < end_offset) { + write_size = MIN(buf_size, end_offset - off); + if (!write_buffer(fd, off, buf, write_size, file_name)) + goto out; + + off += write_size; + } ret = TRUE; out: -- 1.7.1