Add comment explaining the previous fix.

Jeremy.
(cherry picked from commit 9da82269dc6d9da3c0393a85e0217bf22cd2fe5c)

diff --git a/source/libads/ldap.c b/source/libads/ldap.c
index 8c37bfb69e00ab56c09876a0721eb85e53bbe78f..d8a117888eaefe4a0cce045f74f034f183a5b6e2 100644 (file)
--- a/source/libads/ldap.c
+++ b/source/libads/ldap.c
@@ -118,6 +118,12 @@ static int ldap_search_with_timeout(LDAP *ld,
        if (gotalarm != 0)
                return LDAP_TIMELIMIT_EXCEEDED;
 
+       /*
+        * A bug in OpenLDAP means ldap_search_ext_s can return
+        * LDAP_SUCCESS but with a NULL res pointer. Cope with
+        * this. See bug #6279 for details. JRA.
+        */
+
        if (*res == NULL) {
                return LDAP_TIMELIMIT_EXCEEDED;
        }