From c06f72661447a897d66ee18826044111df7f428e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:35:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] GetHost() now sets the third pointer to NULL when the lookup
fails, as the memory is then freed in the function
---
lib/hostip.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/hostip.c b/lib/hostip.c
index 89ac57462e..dc2ed0aecd 100644
--- a/lib/hostip.c
+++ b/lib/hostip.c
@@ -187,12 +187,14 @@ struct hostent *GetHost(struct UrlData *data,
infof(data, "gethostbyname_r(2) failed for %s\n", hostname);
h = NULL; /* set return code to NULL */
free(buf);
+ *bufp=NULL;
}
#else
else {
if ((h = gethostbyname(hostname)) == NULL ) {
infof(data, "gethostbyname(2) failed for %s\n", hostname);
free(buf);
+ *bufp=NULL;
}
#endif
}
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