[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/6] block: mirror - change string allocation to 2-bytes

[Jeff Cody]

The backing_filename string in mirror_run() is only used to check
for a NULL string, so we don't need to allocate 1024 bytes (or, later,
PATH_MAX bytes), when we only need to copy the first 2 characters.

We technically only need 1 byte, as we are just checking for NULL, but
since backing_filename[] is populated by bdrv_get_backing_filename(), a
string size of 1 will always only return '\0';

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
---
 block/mirror.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
index 9019d1b..4056164 100644
--- a/block/mirror.c
+++ b/block/mirror.c
@@ -378,7 +378,8 @@ static void coroutine_fn mirror_run(void *opaque)
     int64_t sector_num, end, sectors_per_chunk, length;
     uint64_t last_pause_ns;
     BlockDriverInfo bdi;
-    char backing_filename[1024];
+    char backing_filename[2]; /* we only need 2 characters because we are only
+                                 checking for a NULL string */
     int ret = 0;
     int n;
 
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