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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:37:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] lib: Don't leak errno from _hivex_recode function.

If iconv returns E2BIG, that's an internal indication for us, and not
an error.  Don't leak the errno up to the user, as happened here:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-November/msg00140.html

Thanks Nicolas Ecarnot.
---
 lib/utf16.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/utf16.c b/lib/utf16.c
index fe2c3bd..238f40a 100644
--- a/lib/utf16.c
+++ b/lib/utf16.c
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ _hivex_recode (const char *input_encoding, const char *input, size_t input_len,
   if (r == (size_t) -1) {
     if (errno == E2BIG) {
       int err = errno;
+      /* Reset errno here because we don't want to accidentally
+       * return E2BIG to a library caller.
+       */
+      errno = 0;
       size_t prev = outalloc;
       /* Try again with a larger output buffer. */
       free (out);
-- 
2.1.0