From 36731d467e9495c4de8b3ea6f11af7e5e22e80f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:02:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't depend on behavior of malloc(0)

git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@2352 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
---
 src/lib/krb5/asn.1/qbuf2data.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/krb5/asn.1/qbuf2data.c b/src/lib/krb5/asn.1/qbuf2data.c
index f9e6de310..44afbd736 100644
--- a/src/lib/krb5/asn.1/qbuf2data.c
+++ b/src/lib/krb5/asn.1/qbuf2data.c
@@ -56,7 +56,13 @@ register int *error;
     if (!retval) {
 	goto nomem;
     }
-    retval->length = val->qb_forw->qb_len;
+    /* If there is no data, don't call malloc.  This saves space on systems
+       which allocate data in response to malloc(0), and saves error checking
+       on systems which return NULL.  */
+    if ((retval->length = val->qb_forw->qb_len) == 0) {
+	retval->data = 0;
+	return retval;
+    }
     retval->data = (char *)xmalloc(val->qb_forw->qb_len);
     if (!retval->data) {
 	xfree(retval);
-- 
2.26.2