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authorMingli Yu <Mingli.Yu@windriver.com>2018-09-20 12:02:48 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-09-20 12:02:48 +0200
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Linux gethostid: Check for NULL value from gethostbyname_r [BZ #23679]
A NULL value can happen with certain gethostbyname_r failures.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d5becac41c..4a66ea4c2a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-09-20 Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu@windriver.com>
+
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c (gethostid): Check for NULL
+ value from gethostbyname_r.
+
2018-09-19 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* stdlib/tst-setcontext9.c (f1): Rename to...
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c
index 2e20f034dc..ee0190e7f9 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ gethostid (void)
{
int ret = __gethostbyname_r (hostname, &hostbuf,
tmpbuf.data, tmpbuf.length, &hp, &herr);
- if (ret == 0)
+ if (ret == 0 && hp != NULL)
break;
else
{
/* Enlarge the buffer on ERANGE. */
- if (herr == NETDB_INTERNAL && errno == ERANGE)
+ if (ret != 0 && herr == NETDB_INTERNAL && errno == ERANGE)
{
if (!scratch_buffer_grow (&tmpbuf))
return 0;