From b279ee16e982d419c2205a7f790bd9cb8035d6e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:52:19 +0000
Subject: r7372: abartet's patch for BUG 2391 (segv caused by free a static
 pointer) (This used to be commit 4cda2bd035276bd090bf0fbd4e3b2eff657a80cb)

---
 source3/lib/username.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

(limited to 'source3/lib')

diff --git a/source3/lib/username.c b/source3/lib/username.c
index 317935d396..e691e4c1f1 100644
--- a/source3/lib/username.c
+++ b/source3/lib/username.c
@@ -250,35 +250,16 @@ static struct passwd *Get_Pwnam_internals(const char *user, char *user2)
 done:
 	DEBUG(5,("Get_Pwnam_internals %s find user [%s]!\n",ret ? "did":"didn't", user));
 
-	/* This call used to just return the 'passwd' static buffer.
-	   This could then have accidental reuse implications, so 
-	   we now malloc a copy, and free it in the next use.
-
-	   This should cause the (ab)user to segfault if it 
-	   uses an old struct. 
-	   
-	   This is better than useing the wrong data in security
-	   critical operations.
-
-	   The real fix is to make the callers free the returned 
-	   malloc'ed data.
-	*/
-
-	if (Get_Pwnam_ret) {
-		passwd_free(&Get_Pwnam_ret);
-	}
-	
-	Get_Pwnam_ret = ret;
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
 /****************************************************************************
  Get_Pwnam wrapper without modification.
   NOTE: This with NOT modify 'user'! 
+  This will return an allocated structure
 ****************************************************************************/
 
-struct passwd *Get_Pwnam(const char *user)
+struct passwd *Get_Pwnam_alloc(const char *user)
 {
 	fstring user2;
 	struct passwd *ret;
@@ -297,6 +278,40 @@ struct passwd *Get_Pwnam(const char *user)
 	return ret;  
 }
 
+/****************************************************************************
+ Get_Pwnam wrapper without modification.
+  NOTE: This with NOT modify 'user'! 
+****************************************************************************/
+
+struct passwd *Get_Pwnam(const char *user)
+{
+	struct passwd *ret;
+
+	ret = Get_Pwnam_alloc(user);
+	
+	/* This call used to just return the 'passwd' static buffer.
+	   This could then have accidental reuse implications, so 
+	   we now malloc a copy, and free it in the next use.
+
+	   This should cause the (ab)user to segfault if it 
+	   uses an old struct. 
+	   
+	   This is better than useing the wrong data in security
+	   critical operations.
+
+	   The real fix is to make the callers free the returned 
+	   malloc'ed data.
+	*/
+
+	if (Get_Pwnam_ret) {
+		passwd_free(&Get_Pwnam_ret);
+	}
+	
+	Get_Pwnam_ret = ret;
+
+	return ret;  
+}
+
 /****************************************************************************
  Check if a user is in a netgroup user list. If at first we don't succeed,
  try lower case.
-- 
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