From 957c869c877e564649650a4e102dedb5e8ecea08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:30:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix off-by-1 error in dbPutFieldLink() when checking long
 input string.

---
 src/db/dbAccess.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/db/dbAccess.c b/src/db/dbAccess.c
index 26e8d7210..b10b62f9f 100644
--- a/src/db/dbAccess.c
+++ b/src/db/dbAccess.c
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ static long dbPutFieldLink(DBADDR *paddr,
     switch (dbrType) {
     case DBR_CHAR:
     case DBR_UCHAR:
-        if (pstring[nRequest] != '\0')
+        if (pstring[nRequest - 1] != '\0')
             return S_db_badDbrtype;
         break;