[Patch] [BZ 13761] Fix another unbound alloca

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.com
Thu Nov 29 07:05:00 GMT 2012


On 11/28/2012 11:12 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> To recap (from the BZ):
>
> nss_compat allocates buffer space on stack using alloca (and
> extend_alloca) for initgroup and keeps extending it to fit in larger
> lines. This breaks for cases where the number of members in a gorup
> are very large, causing the alloca reference to go beyond thread stack
> boundary.  Siddhesh partially fixed this problem a while back, this
> patch completes the fix.

This looks fine to me,

Thanks,
Andreas
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