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-rw-r--r--parallel-checkout.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/parallel-checkout.c b/parallel-checkout.c
index 6b1af32..ddc0ff3 100644
--- a/parallel-checkout.c
+++ b/parallel-checkout.c
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static void send_one_item(int fd, struct parallel_checkout_item *pc_item)
len_data = sizeof(struct pc_item_fixed_portion) + name_len +
working_tree_encoding_len;
- data = xcalloc(1, len_data);
+ data = xmalloc(len_data);
fixed_portion = (struct pc_item_fixed_portion *)data;
fixed_portion->id = pc_item->id;
@@ -421,13 +421,12 @@ static void send_one_item(int fd, struct parallel_checkout_item *pc_item)
fixed_portion->name_len = name_len;
fixed_portion->working_tree_encoding_len = working_tree_encoding_len;
/*
- * We use hashcpy() instead of oidcpy() because the hash[] positions
- * after `the_hash_algo->rawsz` might not be initialized. And Valgrind
- * would complain about passing uninitialized bytes to a syscall
- * (write(2)). There is no real harm in this case, but the warning could
- * hinder the detection of actual errors.
+ * We pad the unused bytes in the hash array because, otherwise,
+ * Valgrind would complain about passing uninitialized bytes to a
+ * write() syscall. The warning doesn't represent any real risk here,
+ * but it could hinder the detection of actual errors.
*/
- hashcpy(fixed_portion->oid.hash, pc_item->ce->oid.hash);
+ oidcpy_with_padding(&fixed_portion->oid, &pc_item->ce->oid);
variant = data + sizeof(*fixed_portion);
if (working_tree_encoding_len) {