Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/fix-huge-malloc' into integration_2025_w04 (!3211)

Avoid huge calloc by alloc'ing TBs independently

Fix real-time problems on smaller machines due to big calloc(). See the
commit(s) for more details.

common/utils/ds/byte_array.c

@@ -72,3 +72,17 @@ byte_array_t cp_str_to_ba(const char* str)
 
   return dst;
 }
+
+char* cp_ba_to_str(const byte_array_t ba)
+{
+  assert(ba.len > 0);
+
+  const size_t sz = ba.len;
+  char* str = calloc(sz+1, sizeof(char));
+  assert(str != NULL && "Memory exhausted");
+
+  memcpy(str, ba.buf, sz);
+  str[sz] = '\0';
+
+  return str;
+}

common/utils/ds/byte_array.h

@@ -42,5 +42,6 @@ void free_byte_array(byte_array_t ba);
 bool eq_byte_array(const byte_array_t* m0, const byte_array_t* m1);
 
 byte_array_t cp_str_to_ba(const char* str);
+char* cp_ba_to_str(const byte_array_t ba);
 
 #endif