From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
A recent refactoring to xfs_idata_realloc in the kernel made it depend
on krealloc returning NULL if the new size is zero. The xfsprogs
wrapper instead aborts, so we need to make it follow the kernel
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
libxfs/kmem.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/libxfs/kmem.c b/libxfs/kmem.c
index 42d813088d6a..c264be018bdc 100644
--- a/libxfs/kmem.c
+++ b/libxfs/kmem.c
@@ -98,6 +98,16 @@ kmem_zalloc(size_t size, int flags)
void *
krealloc(void *ptr, size_t new_size, int flags)
{
+ /*
+ * If @new_size is zero, Linux krealloc will free the memory and return
+ * NULL, so force that behavior here. The return value of realloc with
+ * a zero size is implementation dependent, so we cannot use that.
+ */
+ if (!new_size) {
+ free(ptr);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
ptr = realloc(ptr, new_size);
if (ptr == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, _("%s: realloc failed (%d bytes): %s\n"),
