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-rw-r--r--src/crypt/crypt.c7
-rw-r--r--src/crypt/crypt_r.c4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/crypt/crypt.c b/src/crypt/crypt.c
index f1e310f6..46500737 100644
--- a/src/crypt/crypt.c
+++ b/src/crypt/crypt.c
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ char *__crypt_r(const char *, const char *, struct crypt_data *);
char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt)
{
- /* Note: update this size when we add more hash types */
+ /* This buffer is sufficiently large for all
+ * currently-supported hash types. It needs to be updated if
+ * longer hashes are added. The cast to struct crypt_data * is
+ * purely to meet the public API requirements of the crypt_r
+ * function; the implementation of crypt_r uses the object
+ * purely as a char buffer. */
static char buf[128];
return __crypt_r(key, salt, (struct crypt_data *)buf);
}
diff --git a/src/crypt/crypt_r.c b/src/crypt/crypt_r.c
index 3257e8b9..5982c4c9 100644
--- a/src/crypt/crypt_r.c
+++ b/src/crypt/crypt_r.c
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ char *__crypt_sha512(const char *, const char *, char *);
char *__crypt_r(const char *key, const char *salt, struct crypt_data *data)
{
+ /* Per the crypt_r API, the caller has provided a pointer to
+ * struct crypt_data; however, this implementation does not
+ * use the structure to store any internal state, and treats
+ * it purely as a char buffer for storing the result. */
char *output = (char *)data;
if (salt[0] == '$' && salt[1] && salt[2]) {
if (salt[1] == '1' && salt[2] == '$')