nss: Fix tst-nss-files-hosts-long on single-stack hosts (bug 24816)

getent implicitly passes AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo by default.
Use --no-addrconfig to suppress that, so that both IPv4 and IPv6
lookups succeed even if the address family is not supported by the
host.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit c75d20b5b27b0a60f0678236f51a4d3b0b058c00)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 462a12253d8dc2d67513de8cb3f2b81a67cad0fe..de775ab116483c58de2d756bfc33ba2f97eccb2c 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Security related changes:
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [12154] Do not fail DNS resolution for CNAMEs which are not host names
+  [24816] Fix tst-nss-files-hosts-long on single-stack hosts
   [28846] CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
   [29305] Conserve NSS buffer space during DNS packet parsing
   [29415] nscd: Fix netlink cache invalidation if epoll is used

diff --git a/nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long.c b/nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long.c
index 3942cf5fca5d4961e26657df3e9e2305e43f11df..a7697e31431fc77cb41e8b1e92a73c5d6117b229 100644 (file)
--- a/nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long.c
+++ b/nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long.c
@@ -28,14 +28,15 @@ do_test (void)
 {
   int ret;
 
-  /* Run getent to fetch the IPv4 address for host test4.
-     This forces /etc/hosts to be parsed.  */
-  ret = system("getent ahostsv4 test4");
+  /* Run getent to fetch the IPv4 address for host test4.  This forces
+     /etc/hosts to be parsed.  Use --no-addrconfig to return addresses
+     even in an IPv6-only environment.  */
+  ret = system("getent --no-addrconfig ahostsv4 test4");
   if (ret != 0)
     FAIL_EXIT1("ahostsv4 failed");
 
   /* Likewise for IPv6.  */
-  ret = system("getent ahostsv6 test6");
+  ret = system("getent --no-addrconfig  ahostsv6 test6");
   if (ret != 0)
     FAIL_EXIT1("ahostsv6 failed");