From f141ad1a96453d3fc5fe5e99685b44ffc2e6cc7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:40:44 +0000 Subject: working on bug 687; protect against null src strings in alloc_sub_basic() (This used to be commit 6cf91bce40f85879de00b9ce89ad9b5e04a50b35) --- source3/lib/substitute.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'source3/lib/substitute.c') diff --git a/source3/lib/substitute.c b/source3/lib/substitute.c index ee342964d0..5dec980810 100644 --- a/source3/lib/substitute.c +++ b/source3/lib/substitute.c @@ -494,6 +494,13 @@ char *alloc_sub_basic(const char *smb_name, const char *str) struct passwd *pass; const char *local_machine_name = get_local_machine_name(); + /* workaround to prevent a crash while lookinf at bug #687 */ + + if ( !str ) { + DEBUG(0,("alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string! This should not happen\n")); + return NULL; + } + a_string = strdup(str); if (a_string == NULL) { DEBUG(0, ("alloc_sub_specified: Out of memory!\n")); -- cgit