getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe
authorDebian OpenLDAP Maintainers <pkg-openldap-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:59:30 +0000 (02:59 +0000)
committerRyan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:59:30 +0000 (02:59 +0000)
commitd5fc9a864862fea50661f5654c3a4ed2c28698e5
treeb35e5bfb6e81de5fe344ff9e6322d12464ba117c
parent027e85ee0624931f95fe49acffb1b8053d8cacb7
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