[New-bugs-announce] [issue21216] getaddrinfo is wrongly considered thread safe on linux
Julien Palard
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Apr 14 19:21:43 CEST 2014
New submission from Julien Palard:
I just found that python consider linux implementation of getaddrinfo thread safe :
./python2.6-2.6.8/Modules/socketmodule.c:180
/* On systems on which getaddrinfo() is believed to not be thread-safe,
(this includes the getaddrinfo emulation) protect access with a lock. */
#if defined(WITH_THREAD) && (defined(__APPLE__) || \
(defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version+0 < 503000) || \
defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || \
defined(__VMS) || !defined(HAVE_GETADDRINFO))
#define USE_GETADDRINFO_LOCK
#endif
Badly, it's wrong on my version of linux, and maybe others : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=722075
So for me, looping in three threads on getaddrinfo leads me to a rapid deadlock, while reading on a NETLINK socket, after another thread wrote a DNS query on it and trying to get a response on it.
It may only be reproductible when your getaddrinfo use a NETLINK to get informations about your interfaces before doing the DNS query.
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messages: 216121
nosy: Julien.Palard
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: getaddrinfo is wrongly considered thread safe on linux
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