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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:39:24 +0000
From: Stefan Sedich <stefan.sedich@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix attempts option not being respected from resolv.conf

Thanks Rich,

I have a V2 where I fixed this up as I made a mess of the first one as you
can see, thanks for getting it in :)



Stefan

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 2:37 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:15:12PM +0000, Stefan Sedich wrote:
> > After some extensive digging it looks like the attempts option is not
> being
> > used properly in resolv.conf, turns out there is a subtle bug and it does
> > not appear to read the value correctly.
> >
> > Looking at the old code this did work but must have broken when the
> > resolv.conf reading was refactored out, below is the fix for this (first
> > time submitting a patch here so hopefully I am doing it right).
> >
> > ---
> >  src/network/resolvconf.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/network/resolvconf.c b/src/network/resolvconf.c
> > index 2cf1f475..4c3e4c4b 100644
> > --- a/src/network/resolvconf.c
> > +++ b/src/network/resolvconf.c
> > @@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ int __get_resolv_conf(struct resolvconf *conf, char
> > *search, size_t search_sz)
> >   if (z != p) conf->ndots = x > 15 ? 15 : x;
> >   }
> >   p = strstr(line, "attempts:");
> > - if (p && isdigit(p[6])) {
> > - p += 6;
> > + if (p && isdigit(p[9])) {
> > + p += 9;
> >   unsigned long x = strtoul(p, &z, 10);
> >   if (z != p) conf->attempts = x > 10 ? 10 : x;
> >   }
>
> Looks fine, but your mailer botched the patch formatting. I've applied
> it by hand and added a reference to the commit responsible for the
> regression. Thanks.
>
> Rich
>

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