[5820] in Athena Bugs
discuss bug (pmax/ultrix)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Fri Aug 24 10:38:54 1990
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 10:38:42 -0400
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
null pointer deref in the function ds().
*** /tmp/,RCSt1008165 Fri Aug 24 10:36:50 1990
--- libds/dsname.c Tue Jul 31 22:30:07 1990
***************
*** 67,75 ****
INLINE static char * ds(s)
const char *s;
{
! register int len = strlen (s) + 1;
! register char *ns = malloc (len);
! bcopy (s, ns, len);
return (ns);
}
--- 67,82 ----
INLINE static char * ds(s)
const char *s;
{
! register int len;
! register char *ns;
! if (s) {
! len = strlen (s) + 1;
! ns = malloc (len);
! bcopy (s, ns, len);
! } else {
! ns = malloc(1);
! *ns = '\0';
! }
return (ns);
}
