[PATCH] Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
Wed Apr 3 15:35:00 GMT 2013


On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:57:37PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Since struct sort_results is rather big this can overflow the stack
> pretty fast.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
> 	[BZ #15330]
> 	* sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c (getaddrinfo): Allocate results and
> 	order arrays from heap if bigger than alloca cutoff.

Looks fine to me.

Siddhesh



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