[PATCH] avoid malloc(0) in getdents

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 05:25:01AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> When getdents finishes processing, it returns 0.  Strace uses this to then
> try and do malloc(0), but on some systems this will always return NULL.
> Since the code won't read the pointer in question if len is 0, then don't
> abort on the malloc(0) == NULL case.

When len == 0, the buffer allocated by malloc(0) is not used anyway, so
there are no need to malloc(0) here even on regular systems where
malloc(0) allocates memory, right?


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