[PATCH] getaddrinfo: Use &errno has the errno pointer

[Florian Weimer]

On 08/31/2017 07:49 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> My only real concern about this patch set is...
> 
> fweimer@redhat.com (Florian Weimer) writes:
>>      status = DL_CALL_FCT (fct, (name, _family, &th,			      \
>>  				tmpbuf->data, tmpbuf->length,		      \
>> -				&rc, &herrno, NULL, &localcanon));	      \
>> -    if (rc != ERANGE || herrno != NETDB_INTERNAL)			      \
>> +				&errno, &herrno, NULL, &localcanon));	      \
>> +    if (errno != ERANGE || herrno != NETDB_INTERNAL)			      \
> 
> Are we sure that errno will not *already* be ERANGE when the function is
> called?  IIRC it's the app's responsibility to zero it out after it's
> dealt with the errors, so there's a chance it will happen to have the
> "right" error already, and you'll test a false positive here.
> 
> The original code avoided this by setting rc to 0 before calling.

It does not.  See bug 21915.  This is fixed by a later patch is the series:

  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-08/msg00292.html>

Does this answer your question?

Thanks,
Florian