NULL-Pointer in passdb backends

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Fri Sep 3 13:10:35 GMT 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 14:55, Heinrich Mislik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is from examples/pdb/pdb_test.c :
> 
> 
>         /* Functions your pdb module doesn't provide should be set
>          * to NULL */
> 
> and is wrong. The interface does not check for NULL-Pointers and 
> crashes the smbd, giving some strange results. It just took me a 
> couple of hours, to find this out. So please remove this comment.

IIRC it should check, if it doesn't then we have a problem, I'll watch
out which is the right way to handle this.

Simo.
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