shared: dns-name - add dns_name_between()

Given three DNS names this function indicates if the second argument lies
strictly between the first and the third according to the canonical DNS
name order. Note that the order is circular, so the last name is
considered to be before the first.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/dns-domain.c b/src/shared/dns-domain.c
index 33925bfbd1..8a0dec1540 100644
--- a/src/shared/dns-domain.c
+++ b/src/shared/dns-domain.c
@@ -529,6 +529,28 @@ int dns_name_endswith(const char *name, const char *suffix) {
         }
 }
 
+int dns_name_between(const char *a, const char *b, const char *c) {
+        int n;
+
+        /* Determine if b is strictly greater than a and strictly smaller than c.
+           We consider the order of names to be circular, so that if a is
+           strictly greater than c, we consider b to be between them if it is
+           either greater than a or smaller than c. This is how the canonical
+           DNS name order used in NSEC records work. */
+
+        n = dns_name_compare_func(a, c);
+        if (n == 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+        else if (n < 0)
+                /*       a<---b--->c       */
+                return dns_name_compare_func(a, b) < 0 &&
+                       dns_name_compare_func(b, c) < 0;
+        else
+                /* <--b--c         a--b--> */
+                return dns_name_compare_func(b, c) < 0 ||
+                       dns_name_compare_func(a, b) < 0;
+}
+
 int dns_name_reverse(int family, const union in_addr_union *a, char **ret) {
         const uint8_t *p;
         int r;