No need to go through the specifier_printf() if the path is already too long in
the unexpanded form (since specifiers increase the length of the string in all
practical cases).
In the oss-fuzz test case, valgrind reports:
total heap usage: 179,044 allocs, 179,044 frees, 72,687,755,703 bytes allocated
and the original config file is ~500kb. This isn't really a security issue,
since the config file has to be trusted any way, but just a matter of
preventing accidental resource exhaustion.
https://oss-fuzz.com/v2/issue/4651449704251392/6977
While at it, fix order of arguments in the neighbouring log_syntax() call.
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