in some cases it was possible for the iterator to be positioned in the
wrong place by dns_qp_lookup(). previously, when a leaf node was found
which matched the search key at its parent branch's offset point, but
did not match after that point, the code incorrectly assumed the leaf
it had found was a successor to the searched-for name, and stepped the
iterator back to find a predecessor. however, it was possible for the
non-matching leaf to be the predecessor, in which case stepping the
iterator back was wrong.
(for example: a branch contains "aba" and "abcd", and we are searching
for "abcde". we step down to the twig matching the letter "c" in
position 3. "abcd" is the predecessor of "abcde", so the iterator is
already correctly positioned, but because the twig was an exact match,
we would have moved it back one step to "aba".)
this previously went unnoticed due to a mistake in the qp_test unit
test, which had the wrong expected result for the test case that should
have detected the error. both the code and the test have been fixed.
Evan Hunt
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