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xfs/008: initialize "valid" bitmap in randholes.c
Failures were reported in xfs/008 on s390; dchinner suggested that perhaps the uninitialized "valid" bitmap was behaving differently on that platform, and sure enough, this patch fixes things up. TBH, I'm not sure why using an uninitialized bitmap worked at all, ever, anywhere...? [ dchinner explains during review: It depends on glibc behaviour to whether newly allocated memory is zeroed or not. e.g. for large allocations glibc uses mmap() to directly map anonymous pages for the allocation. These get zeroed by the kernel before being mapped into the user address space. If glibc allocates from the heap and needs to grow it, it uses sbrk() to grow the heap and those pages are, again, zeroed by the kernel. However, if the allocation comes from the heap from previously freed memory, then it doesn't get zeroed. I'd say that the 3rd case is occurring here - there's memory that is allocated and freed as part of the program startup that the bitmap is being allocated from, and so it's not newly zeroed pages that it is being allocated from... ] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
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perror("malloc");
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return 1;
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}
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memset(valid, 0, size);
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/* Lots of arguments affect how we open the file */
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oflags = test ? O_RDONLY : O_RDWR|O_CREAT;
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