On Wed, Nov 14 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > size = ncpus * sizeof(struct thread_information);
> > > > thread_information = malloc(size * ndevs);
> > > > + memset(thread_information, 0, size*ndevs);
> > > > if (!thread_information) {
> > > > fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory, threads (%d)\n", size * ndevs);
> > > > return 1;
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure you want to make the memset after the NULL-pointer check. If
> > > malloc fails this is segfaulting too.
> >
> > Ehm that's indeed a good point, I'll check in a fix for that.
>
> Even better just use calloc..
I considered it, but it holds ndevs * ncpus * size, so I thought it was
cleaner to keep it as-is and just move the memset.
--
Jens Axboe
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