pcmcia-cs: ifuser times out in gethostbyname for empty route tables

pcmcia-cs: ifuser times out in gethostbyname for empty route tables

Post by Alex Riese » Thu, 15 May 2003 12:00:27



Hello, David!

[lkml: sorry for off-topic, but David is very slow on responses, and
the fix could be useful to someone
Brian: the sources are downloaded from debian-unstable]

If I try to stop pcmcia services without actually connecting to the network,
if user will hang for annoyngly long time. I narrowed the problem down
to ifuser tryng to resolve the word "Destination" (first word of the
last line of "netstat -rn" output for empty route table).

That are the second and the third hunks in the attached patch.
The first doesn't start netstat at all if there is nothing to do anyway,
and the last adds check for looopback network.

--- pcmcia-cs-3.2.2/cardmgr/ifuser.c    2001-08-24 14:19:20.000000000 +0200

     }
     if ((*argv[i] == '-') || (argc < i+1)) usage(argv[0]);
     dev = argv[i]; i++;
+    if ( i >= argc )
+       return (!busy);

     /* Get routing table */

     } while (!feof(f) && !isdigit(s[0]));

     tail = &tbl;
+    if ( !isdigit(s[0]) )
+       goto rt_end;
     do {
        r = malloc(sizeof(route_t));

        r->match = (strcmp(iface, dev) == 0);
        *tail = r; tail = &(r->next);
     } while (fgets(s, 128, f) != NULL);
+rt_end:
     *tail = NULL;
     pclose(f);

        }

        for (r = tbl; r; r = r->next) {
+           if ((a & 0xff000000) == 0x7f000000) /* loopback network */
+               continue;
            if ((a & r->mask) == r->dest) {
                if (r->match) {
                    if (verbose) {

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