ldb_compre_base - can you clarify this test?

[Andrew Bartlett]

In this function, from ldb_dn.c, I'm concerned about the use of strlen():

int ldb_dn_compare_base(struct ldb_dn *base, struct ldb_dn *dn)
{
	int ret;
	int n_base, n_dn;

	if ( ! base || base->invalid) return 1;
	if ( ! dn || dn->invalid) return -1;

	if (( ! base->valid_case) || ( ! dn->valid_case)) {
		if (base->linearized && dn->linearized) {
			/* try with a normal compare first, if we are lucky
			 * we will avoid exploding and casfolding */
			int dif;
			dif = strlen(dn->linearized) - strlen(base->linearized);
			if (dif < 0) return dif;
			if (strcmp(base->linearized, &dn->linearized[dif]) == 0) return 0;
		}

Firstly, it is my understanding that there are some (annoying)
characters are longer when upper cased.  Secondly, could dn->liniarized
contain escaped characters?

If either of these are true, is it valid to do the comparisons like this?

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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