[PATCH v2] Remove unnecessary locking when reading iconv configuration [BZ #22062]

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Wed Oct 17 13:16:00 GMT 2018



On 16/10/2018 11:23, Arjun Shankar wrote:
> -	}
> +      /* No user-defined path.  Make a modifiable copy of the
> +         default path.  */
> +      gconv_path = strdupa (default_gconv_path);
> +      gconv_path_len = sizeof (default_gconv_path);
> +      cwd = NULL;
> +      cwdlen = 0;
> +    }
> +  else
> +    {
> +      /* Append the default path to the user-defined path.  */
> +      size_t user_len = strlen (__gconv_path_envvar);
> +
> +      gconv_path_len = user_len + 1 + sizeof (default_gconv_path);
> +      gconv_path = alloca (gconv_path_len);
> +      __mempcpy (__mempcpy (__mempcpy (gconv_path, __gconv_path_envvar,
> +                                       user_len),
> +                            ":", 1),
> +                 default_gconv_path, sizeof (default_gconv_path));
> +      cwd = __getcwd (NULL, 0);
> +      cwdlen = __glibc_unlikely (cwd == NULL) ? 0 : strlen (cwd);

It this alloca really necessary? Can't we get rid of on along with fix (same
for other cases including strdupa)?



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