Author: Steve Langasek OpenLDAP upstream conservatively assumes that certain resolver functions (getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, res_query, dn_expand) are not re-entrant; but we know that the glibc implementations of these functions are thread-safe, so we should bypass the use of this mutex. This fixes a locking problem when an application uses libldap and libnss-ldap is also used for hosts resolution. Closes Debian bug #340601. Not suitable for forwarding upstream; might be made suitable by adding a configure-time check for glibc and disabling the mutex only on known thread-safe implementations. --- a/libraries/libldap/os-ip.c +++ b/libraries/libldap/os-ip.c @@ -602,13 +602,7 @@ ldap_connect_to_host(LDAP *ld, Sockbuf * hints.ai_socktype = socktype; snprintf(serv, sizeof serv, "%d", port ); - /* most getaddrinfo(3) use non-threadsafe resolver libraries */ - LDAP_MUTEX_LOCK(&ldap_int_resolv_mutex); - err = getaddrinfo( host, serv, &hints, &res ); - - LDAP_MUTEX_UNLOCK(&ldap_int_resolv_mutex); - if ( err != 0 ) { osip_debug(ld, "ldap_connect_to_host: getaddrinfo failed: %s\n", AC_GAI_STRERROR(err), 0, 0); --- a/libraries/libldap/util-int.c +++ b/libraries/libldap/util-int.c @@ -431,9 +431,7 @@ int ldap_pvt_get_hname( int rc; #if defined( HAVE_GETNAMEINFO ) - LDAP_MUTEX_LOCK( &ldap_int_resolv_mutex ); rc = getnameinfo( sa, len, name, namelen, NULL, 0, 0 ); - LDAP_MUTEX_UNLOCK( &ldap_int_resolv_mutex ); if ( rc ) *err = (char *)AC_GAI_STRERROR( rc ); return rc;