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safely handle failure to open hosts, services, resolv.conf files

previously, transient failures like fd exhaustion or other
resource-related errors were treated the same as non-existence of
these files, leading to fallbacks or false-negative results. in
particular:

- failure to open hosts resulted in fallback to dns, possibly yielding
  EAI_NONAME for a hostname that should be defined locally, or an
  unwanted result from dns that the hosts file was intended to
  replace.

- failure to open services resulted in EAI_SERVICE.

- failure to open resolv.conf resulted in querying localhost rather
  than the configured nameservers.

now, only permanent errors trigger the fallback behaviors above; all
other errors are reportable to the caller as EAI_SYSTEM.
Rich Felker 9 years ago
parent
commit
2683e267fa
3 changed files with 29 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 9 1
      src/network/lookup_name.c
  2. 9 1
      src/network/lookup_serv.c
  3. 11 2
      src/network/res_msend.c

+ 9 - 1
src/network/lookup_name.c

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 #include "lookup.h"
 #include "stdio_impl.h"
 #include "syscall.h"
@@ -51,7 +52,14 @@ static int name_from_hosts(struct address buf[static MAXADDRS], char canon[stati
 	int cnt = 0;
 	unsigned char _buf[1032];
 	FILE _f, *f = __fopen_rb_ca("/etc/hosts", &_f, _buf, sizeof _buf);
-	if (!f) return 0;
+	if (!f) switch (errno) {
+	case ENOENT:
+	case ENOTDIR:
+	case EACCES:
+		return 0;
+	default:
+		return EAI_SYSTEM;
+	}
 	while (fgets(line, sizeof line, f) && cnt < MAXADDRS) {
 		char *p, *z;
 

+ 9 - 1
src/network/lookup_serv.c

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 #include "lookup.h"
 #include "stdio_impl.h"
 
@@ -69,7 +70,14 @@ int __lookup_serv(struct service buf[static MAXSERVS], const char *name, int pro
 
 	unsigned char _buf[1032];
 	FILE _f, *f = __fopen_rb_ca("/etc/services", &_f, _buf, sizeof _buf);
-	if (!f) return EAI_SERVICE;
+	if (!f) switch (errno) {
+	case ENOENT:
+	case ENOTDIR:
+	case EACCES:
+		return EAI_SERVICE;
+	default:
+		return EAI_SYSTEM;
+	}
 
 	while (fgets(line, sizeof line, f) && cnt < MAXSERVS) {
 		if ((p=strchr(line, '#'))) *p++='\n', *p=0;

+ 11 - 2
src/network/res_msend.c

@@ -54,7 +54,15 @@ int __res_msend(int nqueries, const unsigned char *const *queries,
 
 	/* Get nameservers from resolv.conf, fallback to localhost */
 	f = __fopen_rb_ca("/etc/resolv.conf", &_f, _buf, sizeof _buf);
-	if (f) for (nns=0; nns<3 && fgets(line, sizeof line, f); ) {
+	if (!f) switch (errno) {
+	case ENOENT:
+	case ENOTDIR:
+	case EACCES:
+		goto no_resolv_conf;
+	default:
+		return -1;
+	}
+	for (nns=0; nns<3 && fgets(line, sizeof line, f); ) {
 		if (!strncmp(line, "options", 7) && isspace(line[7])) {
 			unsigned long x;
 			char *p, *z;
@@ -92,7 +100,8 @@ int __res_msend(int nqueries, const unsigned char *const *queries,
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	if (f) __fclose_ca(f);
+	__fclose_ca(f);
+no_resolv_conf:
 	if (!nns) {
 		ns[0].sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
 		ns[0].sin.sin_port = htons(53);