From 3f68888c33d867bc877ed4168eaf375999199044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:12:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] DEVEL15-volprocs-alloc-vnode-instead-of-using-stack-20071126

don't use stack here; alloc memory for short term use


(cherry picked from commit 4f98eb48fccde9dd70708b2dd6b0903745d16b7a)
---
 src/volser/volprocs.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/volser/volprocs.c b/src/volser/volprocs.c
index a63b0f6c00..6e53cea8b5 100644
--- a/src/volser/volprocs.c
+++ b/src/volser/volprocs.c
@@ -203,14 +203,14 @@ ViceCreateRoot(Volume *vp)
     struct acl_accessList *ACL;
     ViceFid did;
     Inode inodeNumber, nearInode;
-    char buf[SIZEOF_LARGEDISKVNODE];
-    struct VnodeDiskObject *vnode = (struct VnodeDiskObject *)buf;
+    struct VnodeDiskObject *vnode;
     struct VnodeClassInfo *vcp = &VnodeClassInfo[vLarge];
     IHandle_t *h;
     FdHandle_t *fdP;
     int code;
     afs_fsize_t length;
 
+    vnode = (struct VnodeDiskObject *)malloc(SIZEOF_LARGEDISKVNODE);
     memset(vnode, 0, SIZEOF_LARGEDISKVNODE);
 
     V_pref(vp, nearInode);
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ ViceCreateRoot(Volume *vp)
     VNDISK_GET_LEN(length, vnode);
     V_diskused(vp) = nBlocks(length);
 
+    free(vnode);
     return 1;
 }