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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-10-14 21:05:33 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-10-14 21:05:33 +0530
commitfda389c8f0311dd5786be91a7b54b9f935fcafa1 (patch)
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Fix infinite loop in check_pf (BZ #12926)
The recvmsg could return 0 under some conditions and cause the
make_request function to be stuck in an infinite loop.

Thank you Jim King <jim.king@simplivity.com> for posting Paul's patch
on the list.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c
index c7fd9b0376..976f249e20 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ make_request (int fd, pid_t pid)
 	};
 
       ssize_t read_len = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__recvmsg (fd, &msg, 0));
-      if (read_len < 0)
+      if (read_len <= 0)
 	goto out_fail2;
 
       if (msg.msg_flags & MSG_TRUNC)