[libvirt] [PATCH] util: fix thinko in runIO

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Nov 25 12:40:19 UTC 2011


On 11/24/2011 08:36 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> When aligning you need to clear the bits in the mask and leave the
> others aside.  Likely this code has never run, and will never run.

Indeed; Linux has posix_memalign, and mingw never runs the io helper
(although it does compile it, hence the #if).  If gnulib would give us
posix_memalign on mingw, we could nuke this #if altogether.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/util/iohelper.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/iohelper.c b/src/util/iohelper.c
> index 9e7bbde..93154f8 100644
> --- a/src/util/iohelper.c
> +++ b/src/util/iohelper.c
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ runIO(const char *path, int fd, int oflags, unsigned long long length)
>          goto cleanup;
>      }
>      base = buf;
> -    buf = (char *) (((intptr_t) base + alignMask) & alignMask);
> +    buf = (char *) (((intptr_t) base + alignMask) & ~alignMask);

ACK and pushed.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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