getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe
authorDebian OpenLDAP Maintainers <pkg-openldap-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:53:12 +0000 (02:53 +0100)
committerRyan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:53:12 +0000 (02:53 +0100)
commit6cf42645856743db5ae46f7424946da9b2e7b1aa
tree813ec6a911524e7d4dc1e81f748bedf3417f1b9c
parent26764536de53b0862fd726152eaf02e588f0c389
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