Cut hostnames at HOSTNAME_LENGTH to avoid theoretical hostname overruns

Changed long packat handling to check for packets of length 0xffffff.
This does however break packet handling for older clients.
If you are using packets >= 16M then you need to upgrade client and server
after this patch.


Docs/internals.texi:
  Updated documentation for 4.1 protocol
sql/ha_innodb.cc:
  Optimization of checking command
sql/item.h:
  Removed automatic set of length for Item_string
sql/item_create.cc:
  Optimized create of create_func_current_user()
sql/net_serv.cc:
  Fixed wrong max packet length
sql/sql_acl.cc:
  Safety fix.
sql/sql_parse.cc:
  Cut hostnames at HOSTNAME_LENGTH to avoid theoretical hostname overruns

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sql/item.h b/sql/item.h
index 05b906a66a6..67dcc8ad7b8 100644
--- a/sql/item.h
+++ b/sql/item.h
@@ -267,8 +267,6 @@ public:
   }
   Item_string(const char *name_par,const char *str,uint length)
   {
-    if (!length)
-      length=strlen(str);
     str_value.set(str,length);
     max_length=length;
     name=(char*) name_par;