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-rw-r--r--libcli/nbt/nbtsocket.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libcli/nbt/nbtsocket.c b/libcli/nbt/nbtsocket.c
index 33d53fba993..8aecaf73247 100644
--- a/libcli/nbt/nbtsocket.c
+++ b/libcli/nbt/nbtsocket.c
@@ -167,8 +167,23 @@ static void nbt_name_socket_recv(struct nbt_name_socket *nbtsock)
return;
}
+ /*
+ * Given a zero length, data_blob_talloc() returns the
+ * NULL blob {NULL, 0}.
+ *
+ * We only want to error return here on a real out of memory condition
+ * (i.e. dsize != 0, so the UDP packet has data, but the return of the
+ * allocation failed, so blob.data==NULL).
+ *
+ * Given an actual zero length UDP packet having blob.data == NULL
+ * isn't an out of memory error condition, that's the defined semantics
+ * of data_blob_talloc() when asked for zero bytes.
+ *
+ * We still need to continue to do the zero-length socket_recvfrom()
+ * read in order to clear the "read pending" condition on the socket.
+ */
blob = data_blob_talloc(tmp_ctx, NULL, dsize);
- if (blob.data == NULL) {
+ if (blob.data == NULL && dsize != 0) {
talloc_free(tmp_ctx);
return;
}