rpki-client passes both empty strings and NULL strings as zero length
objects. The unmarshal code then allocates memory in any case and so a
NULL string is unmarshalled as empty string. This is not great, currently
there are no empty strings but a fair amount of NULL strings.
This diff changes the behaviour and now NULL is passed as NULL.
This should simplify passing optional strings (e.g. in the entity queue
code).
--
:wq Claudio
? obj
Index: io.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/rpki-client/io.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -p -r1.10 io.c
--- io.c 2 Dec 2020 15:31:15 -0000 1.10
+++ io.c 2 Dec 2020 15:54:38 -0000
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ io_buf_read_alloc(int fd, void **res, si
}
/*
- * Read a string (which may just be \0 and zero-length), allocating
+ * Read a string (returns NULL for zero-length strings), allocating
* space for it.
*/
void
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ io_str_read(int fd, char **res)
size_t sz;
io_simple_read(fd, &sz, sizeof(size_t));
+ if (sz == 0) {
+ *res = NULL;
+ return;
+ }
if ((*res = calloc(sz + 1, 1)) == NULL)
err(1, NULL);
io_simple_read(fd, *res, sz);
