[PATCH] getaddrinfo: Get rid of alloca

[Joe Simmons-Talbott <josimmon@redhat.com>]

Use a scratch_buffer rather than alloca to avoid potential stack
overflow.
---
 sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c | 22 ++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
index 0356b622be..442475d621 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
@@ -2404,22 +2404,17 @@ getaddrinfo (const char *name, const char *service,
       struct addrinfo *q;
       struct addrinfo *last = NULL;
       char *canonname = NULL;
-      bool malloc_results;
       size_t alloc_size = nresults * (sizeof (*results) + sizeof (size_t));
+      struct scratch_buffer buf;
+      scratch_buffer_init (&buf);
 
-      malloc_results
-	= !__libc_use_alloca (alloc_size);
-      if (malloc_results)
+      if (!scratch_buffer_set_array_size (&buf, 1, alloc_size))
 	{
-	  results = malloc (alloc_size);
-	  if (results == NULL)
-	    {
-	      __free_in6ai (in6ai);
-	      return EAI_MEMORY;
-	    }
+	  __free_in6ai (in6ai);
+	  return EAI_MEMORY;
 	}
-      else
-	results = alloca (alloc_size);
+      results = buf.data;
+
       order = (size_t *) (results + nresults);
 
       /* Now we definitely need the interface information.  */
@@ -2590,8 +2585,7 @@ getaddrinfo (const char *name, const char *service,
       /* Fill in the canonical name into the new first entry.  */
       p->ai_canonname = canonname;
 
-      if (malloc_results)
-	free (results);
+      scratch_buffer_free (&buf);
     }
 
   __free_in6ai (in6ai);
-- 
2.39.2