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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2007-10-06 18:47:56 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2007-10-06 18:47:56 +0000
commit8c7661bcd362416493b3088ddf176578b225fb18 (patch)
treecacd0e8da9410bf577f62185fffc1cd84ff93b2a /nscd
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* nscd/nscd_helper.c (__nscd_cache_search): Prevent endless loops.
Diffstat (limited to 'nscd')
-rw-r--r--nscd/nscd_helper.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nscd/nscd_helper.c b/nscd/nscd_helper.c
index 5f3d54e..2e6d5f7 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd_helper.c
+++ b/nscd/nscd_helper.c
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ __nscd_cache_search (request_type type, const char *key, size_t keylen,
unsigned long int hash = __nis_hash (key, keylen) % mapped->head->module;
size_t datasize = mapped->datasize;
- ref_t work = mapped->head->array[hash];
+ ref_t first = mapped->head->array[hash];
+ ref_t work = first;
while (work != ENDREF && work + sizeof (struct hashentry) <= datasize)
{
struct hashentry *here = (struct hashentry *) (mapped->data + work);
@@ -454,6 +455,10 @@ __nscd_cache_search (request_type type, const char *key, size_t keylen,
}
work = here->next;
+ /* Prevent endless loops. This should never happen but perhaps
+ the database got corrupted, accidentally or deliberately. */
+ if (work == first)
+ break;
}
return NULL;