Correct misleading comment for URI parsing

ok jsing@

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_constraints.c b/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_constraints.c
index c68f282a05..8cd8413dfa 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_constraints.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_constraints.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: x509_constraints.c,v 1.27 2022/06/26 11:29:27 beck Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: x509_constraints.c,v 1.28 2022/06/27 15:03:11 beck Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2020 Bob Beck <beck@openbsd.org>
  *
@@ -455,9 +455,15 @@ x509_constraints_valid_domain_constraint(uint8_t *constraint, size_t len)
 }
 
 /*
- * Extract the host part of a URI, returns the host part as a c string
- * the caller must free, or or NULL if it could not be found or is
- * invalid.
+ * Extract the host part of a URI. On failure to parse a valid host part of the
+ * URI, 0 is returned indicating an invalid URI. If the host part parses as
+ * valid, or is not present, 1 is returned indicating a possibly valid URI.
+ *
+ * In the case of a valid URI, *hostpart will be set to a copy of the host part
+ * of the URI, or the empty string if no URI is present. If memory allocation
+ * fails *hostpart will be set to NULL, even though we returned 1. It is the
+ * caller's responsibility to indicate an error for memory allocation failure,
+ * and the callers responsibility to free *hostpart.
  *
  * RFC 3986:
  * the authority part of a uri starts with // and is terminated with