getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe
authorDebian OpenLDAP Maintainers <pkg-openldap-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:57:41 +0000 (20:57 +0100)
committerRyan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:57:41 +0000 (20:57 +0100)
commita6f3c043bdfb364624861fa68f05fa256c341be6
tree86fab5b1ac55df5fcf744972f51fe6de7ee783dd
parent3593f4b7bfe25ca9f31dcd2ade93ef3da5baf7f6
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