From 9adde1e4415f6091b96b8669b7613db78654e22f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Tim=20R=C3=BChsen?= <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:09:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] * src/utils.c (make_directory): Replace alloca by fixed array
 / xmalloc

---
 src/utils.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index 75eada17..369100d6 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -956,11 +956,19 @@ int
 make_directory (const char *directory)
 {
   int i, ret, quit = 0;
+  char buf[1024];
   char *dir;
+  size_t len = strlen (directory);
 
   /* Make a copy of dir, to be able to write to it.  Otherwise, the
      function is unsafe if called with a read-only char *argument.  */
-  STRDUP_ALLOCA (dir, directory);
+  if (len < sizeof(buf))
+    {
+      memcpy(buf, directory, len + 1);
+      dir = buf;
+	}
+  else
+    dir = xstrdup(directory);
 
   /* If the first character of dir is '/', skip it (and thus enable
      creation of absolute-pathname directories.  */
@@ -983,6 +991,10 @@ make_directory (const char *directory)
       else
         dir[i] = '/';
     }
+
+  if (dir != buf)
+	  xfree (dir);
+
   return ret;
 }