Re: [PATCH] Fix invalid file descriptor reuse while sending DNS query

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 05/26/2014 12:35 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> When send_dg runs into a timeout it retries with RES_SNGLKUP and then
> with RES_SNGLKUPREOP enabled.  With the latter option the dns socket
> will be reopend after the first query was sent, but the old file
> descriptor is reused for sending the query, which can result in sending
> it to an unrelated file in a multithreaded program.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
> 	[BZ #15946]
> 	* resolv/res_send.c (send_dg): Reload file descriptor after
> 	calling reopen.

OK.

How did you test this? It requires simulating a DNS server with bad
behaviour to two outstanding requests, followed by a timeout. I'm happy
if this is just a fix done by inspection since I agree it looks correct.
I'm just curious. We need better DNS and network testing in glibc, any
ideas would be appreciated. I hope we can talk at Cauldron about this.

> ---
>  resolv/res_send.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/resolv/res_send.c b/resolv/res_send.c
> index 3273d55..af42b8a 100644
> --- a/resolv/res_send.c
> +++ b/resolv/res_send.c
> @@ -1410,6 +1410,7 @@ send_dg(res_state statp,
>  					retval = reopen (statp, terrno, ns);
>  					if (retval <= 0)
>  						return retval;
> +					pfd[0].fd = EXT(statp).nssocks[ns];
>  				}
>  			}
>  			goto wait;
> 

Reviewed __res_iclose, reopen, and send_dg, looks correct to me.

Moving the setting of pfd[0] after `wait:' and reorganizing
a bit might have been an option, but it looked messier than your
fix.

Cheers,
Carlos.