Hello Zhou,

>In current implementation, reserve_diskspace use the buffer as large as
>the space that needs to be reserved. The space is reserved for PT_LOAD.
>Theoretically the size of the whole PT_LOAD can be very large. So it's
>necessary to make reserve_diskspace use a limited size of memory.
>
>Signed-off-by: Zhou wenjian <[email protected]>

Looks good to me, thanks.
I'll merge this into v1.5.9.


Thanks
Atsushi Kumagai

>---
> makedumpfile.c |   15 ++++++++++++---
> 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
>index 88e3389..f7f1f77 100644
>--- a/makedumpfile.c
>+++ b/makedumpfile.c
>@@ -3801,7 +3801,8 @@ read_flat_data_header(struct makedumpfile_data_header 
>*fdh)
> int
> reserve_diskspace(int fd, off_t start_offset, off_t end_offset, char 
> *file_name)
> {
>-      size_t buf_size;
>+      off_t off;
>+      size_t buf_size, write_size;
>       char *buf = NULL;
>
>       int ret = FALSE;
>@@ -3809,6 +3810,7 @@ reserve_diskspace(int fd, off_t start_offset, off_t 
>end_offset, char *file_name)
>       assert(start_offset < end_offset);
>       buf_size = end_offset - start_offset;
>
>+      buf_size = MIN(info->page_size, buf_size);
>       if ((buf = malloc(buf_size)) == NULL) {
>               ERRMSG("Can't allocate memory for the size of reserved 
> diskspace. %s\n",
>                      strerror(errno));
>@@ -3816,8 +3818,15 @@ reserve_diskspace(int fd, off_t start_offset, off_t 
>end_offset, char *file_name)
>       }
>
>       memset(buf, 0, buf_size);
>-      if (!write_buffer(fd, start_offset, buf, buf_size, file_name))
>-              goto out;
>+      off = start_offset;
>+
>+      while (off < end_offset) {
>+              write_size = MIN(buf_size, end_offset - off);
>+              if (!write_buffer(fd, off, buf, write_size, file_name))
>+                      goto out;
>+
>+              off += write_size;
>+      }
>
>       ret = TRUE;
> out:
>--
>1.7.1
>
>
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