linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 8/9] e2fsck: consistently use ext2fs_get

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Date:   Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:36:02 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] e2fsck: consistently use ext2fs_get_mem()

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:09:45PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Consistently use ext2fs_get_mem() and ext2fs_free_mem() instead of
> calling malloc() and free() directly in e2fsck.  In several places
> it is possible to use ext2fs_get_memzero() instead of explicitly
> calling memset() on the memory afterward.
> 
> This is just a code cleanup, and does not fix any specific bugs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
> Lustre-bug-id: https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-13197

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted