Hi Eric,

Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2014, 13:56:49 schrieb Eric Sandeen:
> On 8/21/14, 1:42 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 8/20/14, 10:35 PM, Gui Hecheng wrote:
> >> A memory problem reported by valgrind as follows:
> >> 	=== Syscall param pwrite64(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
> >> 
> >> When running:
> >> 	# valgrind --leak-check=yes btrfs restore /dev/sda9 /mnt/backup
> >> 
> >> Because the output buf size is alloced with malloc, but the length of
> >> output data is shorter than the sizeof(buf), so valgrind report
> >> uninitialised byte(s).
> >> We could use calloc to repalce malloc and clear this WARNING away.
> > 
> > It clears the valgrind error away, but does it hide a real bug?
> 
> Maybe the relevant question for Marc is - did you get decompression
> errors during restore?  if so then I guess it all makes sense, and
> the proposed patch seems sane after all, sorry.

I use lzo and yes, I got decompression errors.

Marc