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-rw-r--r--nscd/netgroupcache.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nscd/netgroupcache.c b/nscd/netgroupcache.c
index 0c6e46f..f227dc7 100644
--- a/nscd/netgroupcache.c
+++ b/nscd/netgroupcache.c
@@ -502,12 +502,13 @@ addinnetgrX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
= (struct indataset *) mempool_alloc (db,
sizeof (*dataset) + req->key_len,
1);
- struct indataset dataset_mem;
bool cacheable = true;
if (__glibc_unlikely (dataset == NULL))
{
cacheable = false;
- dataset = &dataset_mem;
+ /* The alloca is safe because nscd_run_worker verfies that
+ key_len is not larger than MAXKEYLEN. */
+ dataset = alloca (sizeof (*dataset) + req->key_len);
}
datahead_init_pos (&dataset->head, sizeof (*dataset) + req->key_len,