getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe
authorDebian OpenLDAP Maintainers <pkg-openldap-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Mon, 2 Jan 2017 03:47:36 +0000 (03:47 +0000)
committerRyan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>
Mon, 2 Jan 2017 03:47:36 +0000 (03:47 +0000)
commitb9ba29edbef615080a1b5a998debf631c803c6e2
tree481b3b5d306297077a98e2e9bc26b507a9b5cd2e
parentca242678bec380a1ee7cc8ad0ce842055b9086d9
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