this is a clone of the fix to the gethostby*_r functions in commit fe82bb9b921be34370e6b71a1c6f062c20999ae0. the man pages document that the getservby*_r functions set this pointer to NULL if there was an error or if no record was found.
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ int getservbyname_r(const char *name, const char *prots,
struct service servs[MAXSERVS];
int cnt, proto, align;
+ *res = 0;
+
/* Align buffer */
align = -(uintptr_t)buf & ALIGN-1;
if (buflen < 2*sizeof(char *)+align)
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ int getservbyport_r(int port, const char *prots,
if (r) r = getservbyport_r(port, "udp", se, buf, buflen, res);
return r;
}
i = (uintptr_t)buf & sizeof(char *)-1;