Mon Jan 10 14:26:33 2000 H.J. Lu <hjl@lucon.org>

[nfs-utils.git] / utils / mountd / auth.c

diff --git a/utils/mountd/auth.c b/utils/mountd/auth.c
index afa2292888088afdd572661ce9b65d5c6e21f1c0..98c3944767767744091db7954824643b6a73d1bc 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/mountd/auth.c
+++ b/utils/mountd/auth.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "nfslib.h"
 #include "exportfs.h"
 #include "mountd.h"
+#include "xmalloc.h"
 
 enum auth_error
 {
@@ -83,9 +84,14 @@ auth_authenticate_internal(char *what, struct sockaddr_in *caller,
        else {
                /* must make sure the hostent is authorative. */
                char **sp;
-               struct hostent *forward;
+               struct hostent *forward = NULL;
+               char *tmpname;
 
-               forward = gethostbyname((*hpp)->h_name);
+               tmpname = xstrdup((*hpp)->h_name);
+               if (tmpname) {
+                       forward = gethostbyname(tmpname);
+                       free(tmpname);
+               }
                if (forward) {
                        /* now make sure the "addr" is in the list */
                        for (sp = forward->h_addr_list ; *sp ; sp++) {