On reflection, the submitted patch didn't really work to prevent the
request size from exceeding MaxAllocSize, because of the fact that we'd
happily round nbuckets up to the next power of 2 after we'd limited it to
max_pointers.  The simplest way to enforce the limit correctly is to
round max_pointers down to a power of 2 when it isn't one already.

(Note that the constraint to INT_MAX / 2, if it were doing anything useful
at all, is properly applied after that.)