From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:04:22 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add comment explaining the previous fix.
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Add comment explaining the previous fix.
Jeremy.
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diff --git a/source/libads/ldap.c b/source/libads/ldap.c
index 8c37bfb69e0..d8a117888ea 100644
--- 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;
 	}