[2383] Check the constructor gets some data

It is invalid input if no data is passed.

diff --git a/src/lib/dns/name.cc b/src/lib/dns/name.cc
index fdb4ea4e13332f7d406c4eba8cb8976647dd8e47..733b52bb593818371757ebcdba1d32358a6bd83e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/dns/name.cc
+++ b/src/lib/dns/name.cc
@@ -322,6 +322,11 @@ Name::Name(const std::string &namestring, bool downcase) {
 }
 
 Name::Name(const char* namedata, size_t data_len, const Name*, bool downcase) {
+    // Check validity of data
+    if (namedata == NULL || data_len == 0) {
+        isc_throw(isc::InvalidParameter,
+                  "No data provided to Name constructor");
+    }
     // Prepare inputs for the parser
     const char* end = namedata + data_len;