https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2464
--- Comment #3 from Andreas Metzler <eximusers@???> ---
(In reply to Andreas Metzler from comment #2)
> Looking at src/src/readconf.c the failing line is this one:
>
> store_get((int)statbuf.st_size, FALSE);
>
> which seems to malloc() a statbuf.st_size buffer. However for "-C /dev/null"
> stat is not actually called since both
> a) /dev/null is not trusted and
> b) Ustrcmp(filename, US"/dev/null") returns 0
>
> -------------
> if (f.trusted_config && Ustrcmp(filename, US"/dev/null"))
> {
> if (fstat(fileno(config_file), &statbuf) != 0)
> -------------
>
> Therefore statbuf.st_size is unitialized and a huge number which fails to
> malloc() on 32 bit mipsel.
Is this just a copy and paste error? There are two identical instances of the
if (statbuf.st_size > 8192) - block. The second one is the failing one, being
invoked even when fstat() was not run.
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