getaddrinfo-is-threadsafe
authorSteve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Tue, 17 Nov 2020 01:23:45 +0000 (01:23 +0000)
committerRyan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>
Tue, 17 Nov 2020 01:23:45 +0000 (01:23 +0000)
commit53fd3adadc092167bd404b649a51433ee6fc8996
treed1d3a41c39c890766fbd7f55aa75ed1e9a866c46
parent50af275832d37542c200157fcc345202cabdff64
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