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authorJeff Law <law@redhat.com>2012-03-28 10:09:29 -0600
committerJeff Law <law@redhat.com>2012-03-28 10:09:29 -0600
commit86ae07a8c9e8e26806f7b8dedf57e7b14a308c69 (patch)
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[BZ #13760]
        * resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (gaih_getanswer): Look for errno
        in the right place. Discard and retry query if response is
        larger than input buffer size.
Diffstat (limited to 'resolv')
-rw-r--r--resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c
index 01369f6076..10aecb8604 100644
--- a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c
+++ b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c
@@ -1219,7 +1219,13 @@ gaih_getanswer (const querybuf *answer1, int anslen1, const querybuf *answer2,
 				  &first);
   if ((status == NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS || status == NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
        || (status == NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN
-	   && (errno != ERANGE || *h_errnop != NO_RECOVERY)))
+	   /* We want to look at the second answer in case of an
+	      NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN only if the error is non-recoverable, i.e.
+	      *h_errnop is NO_RECOVERY. If not, and if the failure was due to
+	      an insufficient buffer (ERANGE), then we need to drop the results
+	      and pass on the NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN to the caller so that it can
+	      repeat the query with a larger buffer.  */
+	   && (*errnop != ERANGE || *h_errnop == NO_RECOVERY)))
       && answer2 != NULL && anslen2 > 0)
     {
       enum nss_status status2 = gaih_getanswer_slice(answer2, anslen2, qname,