time: Remove alloca() from getdate

Reduce the usage of alloca() to the bare minimum to avoid the potential
for stack overflow.  Use __strndup to simplify the code.

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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Joe Simmons-Talbott 2023-05-03 12:40:05 -04:00 committed by Siddhesh Poyarekar
parent 642f1b9b3d
commit 21f0b087ee

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@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <alloca.h>
#define TM_YEAR_BASE 1900
@ -153,26 +152,14 @@ __getdate_r (const char *string, struct tm *tp)
if (inlen < oldlen)
{
bool using_malloc = false;
if (__libc_use_alloca (inlen + 1))
instr = alloca (inlen + 1);
else
{
instr = malloc (inlen + 1);
instr = __strndup(string, inlen);
if (instr == NULL)
{
fclose (fp);
fclose(fp);
return 6;
}
using_malloc = true;
}
memcpy (instr, string, inlen);
instr[inlen] = '\0';
string = instr;
if (!using_malloc)
instr = NULL;
string = instr;
}
line = NULL;