From: simon <simon@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:25:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix a segfault (addr->error was unpredictable following a dotted-dec lookup)
X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/putty/commitdiff_plain/129bc845557d997ecb354a9cda806394c982ad98?ds=sidebyside

Fix a segfault (addr->error was unpredictable following a dotted-dec lookup)


git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@768 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e
---

diff --git a/winnet.c b/winnet.c
index f80d8806..e36d9e16 100644
--- a/winnet.c
+++ b/winnet.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ SockAddr sk_namelookup(char *host, char **canonicalname) {
     unsigned long a;
     struct hostent *h;
 
+    ret->error = NULL;
     if ( (a = inet_addr(host)) == (unsigned long) INADDR_NONE) {
 	if ( (h = gethostbyname(host)) == NULL) {
 	    DWORD err = WSAGetLastError();
@@ -69,7 +70,6 @@ SockAddr sk_namelookup(char *host, char **canonicalname) {
 			  err == WSATRY_AGAIN ? "Host not found" :
 			  "gethostbyname: unknown error");
 	} else {
-	    ret->error = NULL;
 	    memcpy (&a, h->h_addr, sizeof(a));
 	    *canonicalname = h->h_name;
 	}