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Subject: qemu_malloc() broken by design,
	fix it already (was: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Fix some more
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:

> Oh joy...

As predicted, breaking malloc() the way we did breaks perfectly fine
code for no particular benefit.  We can keep chasing these artificially
created bugs, or we can fix qemu_malloc() & friends and be done with it.