getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe
authorSteve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:32:34 +0000 (18:32 +0000)
committerRyan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>
Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:32:34 +0000 (18:32 +0000)
commit2c17d7a3f076d812b5c73a8218119c69493ef03d
treef442444631c9d297b7197c09d9f08520403444b5
parent7afb8378cfbe62492585ede2f26953cdd78b12f6
getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe

OpenLDAP upstream conservatively assumes that certain resolver functions
(getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, res_query, dn_expand) are not re-entrant; but we
know that the glibc implementations of these functions are thread-safe, so
we should bypass the use of this mutex.  This fixes a locking problem when
an application uses libldap and libnss-ldap is also used for hosts
resolution.

Closes Debian bug #340601.

Not suitable for forwarding upstream; might be made suitable by adding a
configure-time check for glibc and disabling the mutex only on known
thread-safe implementations.

Gbp-Pq: Name getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe
libraries/libldap/os-ip.c
libraries/libldap/util-int.c