minor bug in locate_kdc.c with getaddrinfo

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at secure-endpoints.com
Sun Oct 16 14:57:33 EDT 2011


This patch should not be required.  Windows ws2tcpip.h defines the EAI_
values in terms of WSA errors.  For example:

#define EAI_NONAME          WSAHOST_NOT_FOUND

Jeffrey Altman



On 10/15/2011 2:13 PM, Chris Hecker wrote:
> 
> Here's a patch for a minor WIN32 bug in the getaddrinfo return value
> (called from krb5int_add_host_to_list).  getaddrinfo will return
> WSANO_DATA in some cases (like an address in the hosts file that's on an
> unplugged ethernet cable that was plugged in recently), but that's not
> mapped to an EAI error for some reason (there's a related comment in
> ws2tcpip.h that doesn't help much), so the translate function returns
> EINVAL and the whole request to the KDC fails instead of just using the
> other working KDCs in the list.  This patch fixes it so the unreachable
> kdc is ignored.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> PS. I also sent a test message to the security alias for another bug
> report I'm going to send there, but that was my first pgp mail ever, so
> I don't know if it worked (or even arrived).
> 
> 
> === modified file 'lib/krb5/src/lib/krb5/os/locate_kdc.c'
> --- lib/krb5/src/lib/krb5/os/locate_kdc.c	2011-07-21 10:42:51 +0000
> +++ lib/krb5/src/lib/krb5/os/locate_kdc.c	2011-10-15 07:21:25 +0000
> @@ -163,6 +163,10 @@
>      case EAI_NODATA:
>  #endif
>      case EAI_NONAME:
> +#if _WIN32
> +    case WSANO_DATA:  /* getaddrinfo can return this on destination
> unreachable,
> +                         but it's not mapped to an EAI_* error */
> +#endif
>          /* Name not known or no address data, but no error.  Do
>             nothing more.  */
>          return 0;
> 
> 
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