Services4User review

Luke Howard lukeh at padl.com
Fri Sep 11 18:28:03 EDT 2009


Fixed (although personally I would always check for NULL; call it  
habit).

A couple of other changes were checked in today, after we discovered  
some issues in interop testing. Other than that, have synced trunk  
into the s4u branch. Thanks for the feedback.

-- Luke

On 11/09/2009, at 4:35 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 02:00 -0400, Luke Howard wrote:
>> However, if the caller does not check for nullity, the krb5_free
>> functions must. Which is it to be?
>
> krb5_free functions must check for nullity before dereferencing
> pointers.  However, we've made the decision to rely on free(NULL)  
> being
> a no-op in our code base.  So:
>
>  * In krb5_free_checksum_contents, val->contents can be freed and set
> to NULL even if it is NULL to begin with, so the check you added for
> non-nullity of val->contents is unnecessary.  (val itself is already
> checked for nullity.)
>
>  * In krb5_free_unparsed_name, val can be freed even if it is NULL.
>
>
>

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