Re: assertedValue in match functions

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

All matching routines should be passed an assertion value.
That value can be empty (zero-length) for some syntaxes, but
it must always be present.


At 11:17 AM 5/13/2004, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>I've recently had problems with uniqueMemberMatch being passed a null
>assertedValue (i.e. bv_val = NULL and bv_len undefined) which was causing
>the server to core dump.  I'm not sure if it's my fault or not, because I
>was mucking with slap_sasl_* code and I might have poked something bad in,
>but my question is: is it correct that *Match() functions do not check for
>NULL assertedValues on input?  Should this be impossible or what?  In that
>particular function there was a test ( asserted.bv_len > 0 ), which I
>turned into ( !BER_BVISNULL( asserted ) ) to solve my problem, but I note
>that otehr *Match() functions do not check args.
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>p.
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>Pierangelo Masarati
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