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-rw-r--r--src/syscall/getdirentries_test.go10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/syscall/getdirentries_test.go b/src/syscall/getdirentries_test.go
index 8505a0bb89..1cbed8d4f7 100644
--- a/src/syscall/getdirentries_test.go
+++ b/src/syscall/getdirentries_test.go
@@ -66,7 +66,15 @@ func testGetdirentries(t *testing.T, count int) {
}
data := buf[:n]
for len(data) > 0 {
- dirent := (*syscall.Dirent)(unsafe.Pointer(&data[0]))
+ // syscall.Getdirentries's return value may be (and usually is) much
+ // smaller than a syscall.Dirent, which has lots of padding for
+ // the name at the end. The compiler's checkptr validation doesn't like
+ // that. So allocate direntMem that's always big enough, and use that
+ // when converting to *syscall.Dirent.
+ var direntMem [unsafe.Sizeof(syscall.Dirent{})]byte
+ copy(direntMem[:], data)
+ dirent := (*syscall.Dirent)(unsafe.Pointer(&direntMem[0]))
+
data = data[dirent.Reclen:]
name := make([]byte, dirent.Namlen)
for i := 0; i < int(dirent.Namlen); i++ {