[2.26 COMMITTED] getaddrinfo: In gaih_inet, use h_errno for certain status values only

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2017


h_errno is not set for NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS, so its value might not be
accurate at this point.

(cherry picked from commit a2881ef01450295782b065f2f850f340d5c12c14)

2017-09-01  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>

	* sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c (gaih_inet): Only use h_errno if
	status indicates it is set.

diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
index eaf8bafcf4..9d9e7e2bf2 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
@@ -949,7 +949,10 @@ gaih_inet (const char *name, const struct gaih_service *service,
 	  __resolv_context_enable_inet6 (res_ctx, res_enable_inet6);
 	  __resolv_context_put (res_ctx);
 
-	  if (h_errno == NETDB_INTERNAL)
+	  /* If we have a failure which sets errno, report it using
+	     EAI_SYSTEM.  */
+	  if ((status == NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN || status == NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL)
+	      && h_errno == NETDB_INTERNAL)
 	    {
 	      result = -EAI_SYSTEM;
 	      goto free_and_return;



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