Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/07/2009 07:17 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> I don't understand.  People will develop patches for 0.12 for a 
>>> while as bugs are reported and fixed.
>>
>> What's the exact problem here?
>>
>
> Bug reported against qemu.  Developer develops patch, while testing 
> qemu crashes on unrelated assert(size == 0).

1) Developer develops a patch against 0.12, it works, and they submit it 
to upstream.
2) Upstream crashes because of assert(size==0).
3) Developer is publicly shamed for developing against a release instead 
of a git tree.

The problem is (1), not (2).   Not to mention that we won't allow 
qemu_malloc() uses in upstream anymore which should make (2) impossible.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori