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Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c index af781010753b..49da67034f29 100644 --- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c +++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c @@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ * @name: Name to look up * @namelen: Length of name * @options: Request options (or NULL if no options) - * @_result: Where to place the returned data. + * @_result: Where to place the returned data (or NULL) * @_expiry: Where to store the result expiry time (or NULL) * - * The data will be returned in the pointer at *result, and the caller is - * responsible for freeing it. + * The data will be returned in the pointer at *result, if provided, and the + * caller is responsible for freeing it. * * The description should be of the form "[<query_type>:]<domain_name>", and * the options need to be appropriate for the query type requested. If no @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen, kenter("%s,%*.*s,%zu,%s", type, (int)namelen, (int)namelen, name, namelen, options); - if (!name || namelen == 0 || !_result) + if (!name || namelen == 0) return -EINVAL; /* construct the query key description as "[<type>:]<name>" */ @@ -146,13 +146,15 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen, upayload = user_key_payload_locked(rkey); len = upayload->datalen; - ret = -ENOMEM; - *_result = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!*_result) - goto put; + if (_result) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + *_result = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!*_result) + goto put; - memcpy(*_result, upayload->data, len); - (*_result)[len] = '\0'; + memcpy(*_result, upayload->data, len); + (*_result)[len] = '\0'; + } if (_expiry) *_expiry = rkey->expiry; |