[mnordell] 57317: MS-compatible but interface contract violating return value for QueryInterface with NULL ppvObject.

Author: mnordell
Date: Mon Sep 17 20:27:02 2012
New Revision: 57317

URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=57317&view=rev
Log:
MS-compatible but interface contract violating return value for QueryInterface with NULL
ppvObject.

Modified:
    trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/msxml3_ros.diff
    trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/nodelist.c

Modified: trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/msxml3_ros.diff
URL:
http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/msxml3_ro…
==============================================================================
--- trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/msxml3_ros.diff [iso-8859-1] (original)
+++ trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/msxml3_ros.diff [iso-8859-1] Mon Sep 17 20:27:02 2012
@@ -24,17 +24,18 @@
 
 Index: nodelist.c
 ===================================================================
---- nodelist.c  (revision 57307)
+--- nodelist.c  (revision 57316)
 +++ nodelist.c  (working copy)
-@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@
+@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@
 
-     TRACE("(%p)->(%s %p)\n", This, debugstr_guid(riid), ppvObject);
+     if (!ppvObject)
+     {
+-        return E_POINTER;
++        /* NOTE: Interface documentation for IUnknown explicitly states
++         * this case should return E_POINTER. Empirical data proves
++         * MS violates this contract and instead return E_INVALIDARG.
++         */
++        return E_INVALIDARG;
+     }
 
-+    if (!ppvObject)
-+    {
-+        return E_POINTER;
-+    }
-+
      if ( IsEqualGUID( riid, &IID_IUnknown ) ||
-          IsEqualGUID( riid, &IID_IDispatch ) ||
-          IsEqualGUID( riid, &IID_IXMLDOMNodeList ) )

Modified: trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/nodelist.c
URL:
http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/nodelist.…
==============================================================================
--- trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/nodelist.c [iso-8859-1] (original)
+++ trunk/reactos/dll/win32/msxml3/nodelist.c [iso-8859-1] Mon Sep 17 20:27:02 2012
@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@
 
     if (!ppvObject)
     {
-        return E_POINTER;
+        /* NOTE: Interface documentation for IUnknown explicitly states
+         * this case should return E_POINTER. Empirical data proves
+         * MS violates this contract and instead return E_INVALIDARG.
+         */
+        return E_INVALIDARG;
     }
 
     if ( IsEqualGUID( riid, &IID_IUnknown ) ||