From 02fbbc8ea26882d6ae46099cb8fc7fee73efb25e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:17:00 +0000 Subject: `od -c -w9999999' could segfault (dump): Use xnmalloc/free, not alloca. --- src/od.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/od.c b/src/od.c index c68d40bac..5dd9d9f4d 100644 --- a/src/od.c +++ b/src/od.c @@ -1421,8 +1421,8 @@ dump (void) int err; size_t n_bytes_read; - block[0] = alloca (bytes_per_block); - block[1] = alloca (bytes_per_block); + block[0] = xnmalloc (2, bytes_per_block); + block[1] = block[0] + bytes_per_block; current_offset = n_bytes_to_skip; @@ -1487,6 +1487,8 @@ dump (void) if (limit_bytes_to_format && current_offset >= end_offset) err |= check_and_close (0); + free (block[0]); + return err; } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2