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Re: [PATCHv2] ident.c: add support for IPv6

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 19, 2015, 14:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20151119144632.GD9353@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<1447941260-5395-1-git-send-email-gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 02:54:20PM +0100, Elia Pinto wrote:
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> Add IPv6 support by implementing name resolution with the
> protocol agnostic getaddrinfo(3) API. The old gethostbyname(3)
> code is still available when git is compiled with NO_IPV6.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 
> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> ---
> This is the second version of the patch ($gmane/280488)
> Changes from previous:
> 
> - Simplified the implementation, avoiding the duplication of 
> the function add_domainname (Jeff King) ($gmane/280512)
> 
> - Fixed a possible memory leak with getaddrinfo (Eric Sunshine)
>   ($gmane/280507)

Thanks, this looks much nicer than the last round. I still have a few comments:

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> diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
> index 5ff1aad..283e83f 100644
> --- a/ident.c
> +++ b/ident.c
> @@ -73,7 +73,12 @@ static int add_mailname_host(struct strbuf *buf)
>  static void add_domainname(struct strbuf *out)
>  {
>  	char buf[1024];
> +#ifndef NO_IPV6
> +	struct addrinfo hints, *ai;
> +	int gai;
> +#else
>  	struct hostent *he;
> +#endif /* NO_IPV6 */

Can we bump these declarations closer to the point of use? I think that makes it easier to read, as the matching bits are all together.

So this:
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> +	else	{
> +#ifndef NO_IPV6
> +		memset (&hints, '\0', sizeof (hints));
> +		hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
> +		if (!(gai = getaddrinfo(buf, NULL, &hints, &ai)) && ai && strchr(ai->ai_canonname, '.')) 
> +			strbuf_addstr(out, ai->ai_canonname);
> +#else
> +		if ((he = gethostbyname(buf)) && strchr(he->h_name, '.'))
> +			strbuf_addstr(out, he->h_name);
> +#endif /* NO_IPV6 */
becomes:
      else {
  #ifndef NO_IPV6
	struct addrinfo hints, *ai;
	int gai;
	if (!(gai = getaddrinfo()...))
  #else
	struct hostent *he;
	if ((he = gethostbyname()....))
  #endif
> +		else
> +			strbuf_addf(out, "%s.(none)", buf);

This depends on both sides of the #if ending with a hanging "if" clause. I guess that's OK in such a small function, but I do still wonder if we can have a helper like:

  static void canonical_name(const char *host, struct strbuf *out)
  {
  #ifndef NO_IPV6
	struct addrinfo hints, *ai;
	int gai = getaddrinfo(host, NULL, &hints, &ai);
	if (!gai && ai && strchr(ai->ai_canonname, '.')) {
		strbuf_addstr(out, ai->ai_canonname);
		freeaddrinfo(ai);
	}
  #else
	struct hostent *he = gethostbyname(buf);
	if (he && strchr(he->h_name, '.'))
		strbuf_addstr(out, he->h_name);
  }
  ...
  canonical_name(buf, out);
  if (!out.len)
	strbuf_addf(out, "%s.(none)", buf);

(or possibly have an integer return value from canonical_name instead of checking the strbuf length).

> +#ifndef NO_IPV6
> +		if (gai) freeaddrinfo(ai);
> +#endif /* NO_IPV6 */
Should this be "if (!gai)"?
-Peff
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  1. Elia PintoNov 19, 2015
  2. Jeff KingNov 19, 2015

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