2.5.7 gnutls_x509_privkey_generate() returns GNUTLS_E_INVALID_REQUEST

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

I don't like mallocs for short sized buffers I think it is better to
use a fixed buffer that will have maximum size enough to hold data.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> writes:
>
>> I've commited a fix for all of the issues. I changed also the logic to
>> avoid using malloc in some places (requires C99).
>
> I don't think we can use c99 constructs unconditionally, c99 is not
> sufficiently widely supported yet.  I've reverted the gnutls_constate.c
> patch, and also the gnutls_mpi.c patch but I fixed that memory leak.
>
> Possibly _gnutls_set_keys could use a goto to a cleanup section.
> Ideally the function should be rewritten and be much shorter, but I
> think we are too close to a stable release to do that now.  It can be
> applied in one week when 2.6.0 has been released.
>
> /Simon
>