[PATCH 2/3] Make res_init() thread safe.

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 15:18:24 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:51:36AM +0000, Sørensen, Kenneth wrote:
> 
> From c34c95553ac7ebd278059fada06319aaf132c906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Kenneth Soerensen <kenneth.sorensen at spectralink.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:52:52 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Make res_init() thread safe.
> 
> res_init() was not atomic, which could give undesired behaviour. Now
> res_init() is completely locked under one lock and the locking is
> removed from __res_vinit().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kenneth Soerensen <kenneth.sorensen at spectralink.com>
> ---
>  libc/inet/resolv.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libc/inet/resolv.c b/libc/inet/resolv.c
> index df6fefd..c230534 100644
> --- a/libc/inet/resolv.c
> +++ b/libc/inet/resolv.c
> @@ -3434,7 +3434,6 @@ __res_vinit(res_state rp, int preinit)
>  	int m = 0;
>  #endif
>  
> -	__UCLIBC_MUTEX_LOCK(__resolv_lock);
>  	__close_nameservers();
>  	__open_nameservers();
>  
> @@ -3526,7 +3525,6 @@ __res_vinit(res_state rp, int preinit)
>  
>  	rp->options |= RES_INIT;
>  
> -	__UCLIBC_MUTEX_UNLOCK(__resolv_lock);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -3576,11 +3574,11 @@ res_init(void)
>  	if (!_res.id)
>  		_res.id = res_randomid();
>  
> -	__UCLIBC_MUTEX_UNLOCK(__resolv_lock);
> -
>  	__res_vinit(&_res, 1);
>  	__res_sync = res_sync_func;
>  
> +	__UCLIBC_MUTEX_UNLOCK(__resolv_lock);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  libc_hidden_def(res_init)
> @@ -3679,7 +3677,9 @@ struct __res_state *__resp = &_res;
>  int
>  res_ninit(res_state statp)
>  {
> +	__UCLIBC_MUTEX_LOCK(__resolv_lock);
>  	return __res_vinit(statp, 0);
> +	__UCLIBC_MUTEX_UNLOCK(__resolv_lock);

This hunk had the locking wrong as you can see. Applied with slight
adjustment.
Thanks,


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