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-rw-r--r--source4/lib/tdb/common/io.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source4/lib/tdb/common/io.c b/source4/lib/tdb/common/io.c
index a276a8c291..e9d4e87ac8 100644
--- a/source4/lib/tdb/common/io.c
+++ b/source4/lib/tdb/common/io.c
@@ -351,6 +351,11 @@ unsigned char *tdb_alloc_read(struct tdb_context *tdb, tdb_off_t offset, tdb_len
{
unsigned char *buf;
+ /* some systems don't like zero length malloc */
+ if (len == 0) {
+ len = 1;
+ }
+
if (!(buf = malloc(len))) {
/* Ensure ecode is set for log fn. */
tdb->ecode = TDB_ERR_OOM;