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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/posix/readv.c28
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/readv.c b/sysdeps/posix/readv.c
index 91208e9894..9cdf571787 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/readv.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/readv.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <limits.h>
+#include <scratch_buffer.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>
@@ -26,9 +27,9 @@
static void
-ifree (char **ptrp)
+ifree (struct scratch_buffer *sbuf)
{
- free (*ptrp);
+ scratch_buffer_free (sbuf);
}
/* Read data from file descriptor FD, and put the result in the
@@ -52,20 +53,15 @@ __readv (int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count)
bytes += vector[i].iov_len;
}
- /* Allocate a temporary buffer to hold the data. We should normally
- use alloca since it's faster and does not require synchronization
- with other threads. But we cannot if the amount of memory
- required is too large. */
- char *buffer;
- char *malloced_buffer __attribute__ ((__cleanup__ (ifree))) = NULL;
- if (__libc_use_alloca (bytes))
- buffer = (char *) __alloca (bytes);
- else
- {
- malloced_buffer = buffer = (char *) malloc (bytes);
- if (buffer == NULL)
- return -1;
- }
+ /* Allocate a temporary buffer to hold the data. Use a scratch_buffer
+ since it's faster for small buffer sizes but can handle larger
+ allocations as well. */
+
+ struct scratch_buffer __attribute__ ((__cleanup__ (ifree))) buf;
+ scratch_buffer_init (&buf);
+ if (!scratch_buffer_set_array_size (&buf, 1, bytes))
+ return -1;
+ char *buffer = buf.data;
/* Read the data. */
ssize_t bytes_read = __read (fd, buffer, bytes);