Am 30.11.2009 14:55, schrieb Markus Armbruster: > Commit a7d27b53 made zero-sized allocations a fatal error, deviating > from ISO C's malloc() & friends. Revert that, but take care never to > return a null pointer, like malloc() & friends may do (it's > implementation defined), because that's another source of bugs. > > [...] > > Based on this sample, I'm confident there are many more uses broken by > the change. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> We really should fix the root cause once and for all instead of working around unexpected qemu_malloc behaviour each time when one of the time bombs has blown up another (possibly production) VM.