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

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Date:   Wed, 4 Mar 2020 18:23:52 -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 Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 06:36:02PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> 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.

I had to fix up this Makefile so that "make check" would properly link
tst_region.

						- Ted