"make bigdata" biggest offender dealt with:

xmalloc 16Kb buffer instead of keeping it in bss

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c b/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c
index 71cf138ee..bff2371e4 100644
--- a/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c
+++ b/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ xbsd_write_bootstrap(void)
         memset(d, 0, sizeof(struct xbsd_disklabel));
 
         snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/boot%s", bootdir, dkbasename);
-        if (!xbsd_get_bootstrap (path, &disklabelbuffer[xbsd_dlabel.d_secsize],
+        if (!xbsd_get_bootstrap(path, &disklabelbuffer[xbsd_dlabel.d_secsize],
                           (int) xbsd_dlabel.d_bbsize - xbsd_dlabel.d_secsize))
                 return;
 
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ xbsd_writelabel (struct partition *p, struct xbsd_disklabel *d)
                 d, sizeof(struct xbsd_disklabel));
 
 #if defined (__alpha__) && BSD_LABELSECTOR == 0
-        alpha_bootblock_checksum (disklabelbuffer);
+        alpha_bootblock_checksum(disklabelbuffer);
         if (lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) == -1)
                 fdisk_fatal(unable_to_seek);
         if (BSD_BBSIZE != write(fd, disklabelbuffer, BSD_BBSIZE))
diff --git a/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c b/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c
index f0b658d0e..af19da68c 100644
--- a/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c
+++ b/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c
@@ -613,7 +613,8 @@ static void alarm_intr(int alnum)
 static void check_blocks(void)
 {
         int try, got;
-        static char buffer[BLOCK_SIZE * TEST_BUFFER_BLOCKS];
+        /* buffer[] was the biggest static in entire bbox */
+        char *buffer = xmalloc(BLOCK_SIZE * TEST_BUFFER_BLOCKS);
 
         currently_testing = 0;
         signal(SIGALRM, alarm_intr);
@@ -635,6 +636,7 @@ static void check_blocks(void)
                 badblocks++;
                 currently_testing++;
         }
+        free(buffer);
         printf("%d bad block(s)\n", badblocks);
 }