Improve comments and defensive programming for 3045

The comment fixes are trivial.  The defensive programming trick is to
tolerate receiving NULL inputs on the describe functions. That should
never actually happen, but it seems like the likeliest mistake for us
to make in the future.

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/or/router.c b/src/or/router.c
index a11d3a5923..0bd4c55026 100644
--- a/src/or/router.c
+++ b/src/or/router.c
@@ -2223,8 +2223,7 @@ is_legal_hexdigest(const char *s)
  * and address <b>addr</b> or <b>addr32h</b>.
  *
  * The <b>nickname</b> and <b>addr</b> fields are optional and may be set to
- * NULL.  The <b>addr32h</b> field is optional and may be set to
- * <b>addr32h</b>.
+ * NULL.  The <b>addr32h</b> field is optional and may be set to 0.
  *
  * Return a pointer to the front of <b>buf</b>.
  */
@@ -2237,6 +2236,10 @@ format_node_description(char *buf,
                         uint32_t addr32h)
 {
   char *cp;
+
+  if (!buf)
+    return "<NULL BUFFER>";
+
   buf[0] = '$';
   base16_encode(buf+1, HEX_DIGEST_LEN+1, id_digest, DIGEST_LEN);
   cp = buf+1+HEX_DIGEST_LEN;
@@ -2268,6 +2271,8 @@ format_node_description(char *buf,
 const char *
 router_get_description(char *buf, const routerinfo_t *ri)
 {
+  if (!ri)
+    return "<null>";
   return format_node_description(buf,
                                  ri->cache_info.identity_digest,
                                  ri->is_named,
@@ -2284,6 +2289,8 @@ router_get_description(char *buf, const routerinfo_t *ri)
 const char *
 routerstatus_get_description(char *buf, const routerstatus_t *rs)
 {
+  if (!rs)
+    return "<null>";
   return format_node_description(buf,
                                  rs->identity_digest,
                                  rs->is_named,
@@ -2300,6 +2307,8 @@ routerstatus_get_description(char *buf, const routerstatus_t *rs)
 const char *
 extend_info_get_description(char *buf, const extend_info_t *ei)
 {
+  if (!ei)
+    return "<null>";
   return format_node_description(buf,
                                  ei->identity_digest,
                                  0,
diff --git a/src/or/router.h b/src/or/router.h
index 6cabfd56e8..a285a3e773 100644
--- a/src/or/router.h
+++ b/src/or/router.h
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ int is_legal_nickname(const char *s);
 int is_legal_nickname_or_hexdigest(const char *s);
 int is_legal_hexdigest(const char *s);
 
+/**
+ * Longest allowed output of format_node_description, plus 1 character for
+ * NUL.  This allows space for:
+ * "$FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF~xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at"
+ * " [ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:255.255.255.255]"
+ * plus a terminating NUL.
+ */
 #define NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN (MAX_VERBOSE_NICKNAME_LEN+4+TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN)
 const char *format_node_description(char *buf,
                                     const char *id_digest,