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Message-ID: <20200313221649.GN11469@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:16:49 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Proposal to match behaviour of gethostbyname to glibc
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:46:48PM +0100, Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today I've noticed difference in behavior of gethostbyname in musl and
> in glibc. Given /etc/hosts
>
> 127.0.0.1 foo.bar foo
> 127.0.0.1 bar.foo foo
>
> and simple test program
>
> #include <netdb.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> struct hostent *he = gethostbyname(argv[1]);
> printf("Hostname: %s\n", he->h_name);
> }
>
> , I've run it both under musl (alpine) and glibc (archlinux).
>
> musl:
>
> /test # ./test foo
> Hostname: bar.foo
>
> glibc:
>
> [root@foo test]# ./test foo
> Hostname: foo.bar
>
> I don't think there is an actual reason to iterate through all of the
> /etc/hosts and first match can be returned instead. Following patch
> should in my opinion fix this.
>
>
>
> diff --git a/src/network/lookup_name.c b/src/network/lookup_name.c
> index c93263a9..da8db9d4 100644
> --- a/src/network/lookup_name.c
> +++ b/src/network/lookup_name.c
> @@ -87,7 +87,10 @@ static int name_from_hosts(struct address buf[static MAXADDRS], char canon[stati
> for (; *p && isspace(*p); p++);
> for (z=p; *z && !isspace(*z); z++);
> *z = 0;
> - if (is_valid_hostname(p)) memcpy(canon, p, z-p+1);
> + if (is_valid_hostname(p)) {
> + memcpy(canon, p, z-p+1);
> + break;
> + }
> }
> __fclose_ca(f);
> return cnt ? cnt : badfam;
>
>
>
> While this is admittedly edge case that most users will not run into, I
> still think it would be nice to behave the same way as glibc does on
> this one. And as a bonus, it will be *tiny* bit faster, since there
> would not be any need to iterate rest of the /etc/hosts file.
>
>
>
> Thank you for considering this,
I don't really see any downsides to doing this, even if "matching
glibc" isn't a terribly useful goal. If nothing else it's faster. Do
you know if there's widespread match for this behavior across other
systems too?
Rich
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