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authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2012-08-09 20:47:17 -0400
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2012-08-09 20:47:17 -0400
commitb3c4cc121f70faea45389fe7ddc1127ed5cbd8bb (patch)
tree3bebd913d79b7acac599853a2e82c0831421ae77 /src/misc
parentae0b9da48c91087c5ab78e4918deb69665d0ccc6 (diff)
downloadmusl-b3c4cc121f70faea45389fe7ddc1127ed5cbd8bb.tar.gz
make crypt return an unmatchable hash rather than NULL on failure
unfortunately, a large portion of programs which call crypt are not prepared for its failure and do not check that the return value is non-null before using it. thus, always "succeeding" but giving an unmatchable hash is reportedly a better behavior than failing on error. it was suggested that we could do this the same way as other implementations and put the null-to-unmatchable translation in the wrapper rather than the individual crypt modules like crypt_des, but when i tried to do it, i found it was making the logic in __crypt_r for keeping track of which hash type we're working with and whether it succeeded or failed much more complex, and potentially error-prone. the way i'm doing it now seems to have essentially zero cost, anyway.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/misc')
-rw-r--r--src/misc/crypt_des.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/misc/crypt_des.c b/src/misc/crypt_des.c
index 4dc6b4b5..4454a130 100644
--- a/src/misc/crypt_des.c
+++ b/src/misc/crypt_des.c
@@ -1014,11 +1014,8 @@ char *__crypt_des(const char *key, const char *setting, char *output)
* likely that any alignment related issues would be detected.
*/
p = _crypt_extended_r_uut(test_key, test_setting, test_buf);
- if (p && !strcmp(p, test_hash))
+ if (p && !strcmp(p, test_hash) && retval)
return retval;
- /*
- * Should not happen.
- */
- return NULL;
+ return (setting[0]=='*') ? "x" : "*";
}