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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 02:20:47 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] xfs_repair: clear new memory after realloc
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To: Mike Grant <mggr@pml.ac.uk>
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Can you add a new realloc_zeroed helper?, e.g.

void *
realloc_zeroed(void *ptr, size_t old_size, size_t new_size)
{
	ptr = realloc(ptr, new_size);
	if (ptr)
		memset(ptr + old_size, 0, new_size - old_size);
	return ptr;
}

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