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Bug 1956479 - [RFE] remove usage of gethostbyname/inet_ntoa
Summary: [RFE] remove usage of gethostbyname/inet_ntoa
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: krb5
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: Julien Rische
QA Contact: Filip Dvorak
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-05-03 18:40 UTC by Robbie Harwood
Modified: 2023-05-03 07:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-05-03 07:28:33 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker FREEIPA-7367 0 None None None 2021-11-25 11:38:47 UTC

Description Robbie Harwood 2021-05-03 18:40:25 UTC 
Various less important parts of the codebase use gethostbyname() and inet_ntoa().  These should be modernized and the rpminspect test re-enabled.
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2022-11-03 07:27:45 UTC 
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.
Comment 8 Julien Rische 2022-11-03 08:49:19 UTC 
Reopening. There are still gethostbyname() and inet_ntoa() calls to remove.
Comment 13 Julien Rische 2023-04-03 12:00:55 UTC 
Here are all the occurrences of gethostbyname and inet_ntoa on the krb5 master branch (stripped from all the comment mentions):

$ grep -ERIn '(gethostbyname[^_]|inet_ntoa)' --include '*.c' --include '*.h'
src/windows/leashdll/timesync.c:229:    if ((host = gethostbyname(hostname)) == NULL)
src/appl/gss-sample/gss-client.c:127:    if ((hp = gethostbyname(host)) == NULL) {
src/appl/simple/server/sim_server.c:227:    printf("&c_sock.sin_addr is %s\n", inet_ntoa(c_sock.sin_addr));
src/appl/simple/client/sim_client.c:143:    if ((host = gethostbyname(hostname)) == (struct hostent *) 0) {
src/appl/simple/client/sim_client.c:153:    printf("s_sock.sin_addr is %s\n", inet_ntoa(s_sock.sin_addr));
src/appl/simple/client/sim_client.c:182:    if ((host = gethostbyname(my_hostname)) == (struct hostent *)0) {
src/appl/user_user/client.c:76:    if ((host = gethostbyname (argv[1])) == NULL) {
src/appl/user_user/client.c:122:                 hname, inet_ntoa(serv_net_addr.sin_addr));
src/util/support/fake-addrinfo.c:178:    { TMP = gethostbyname (NAME); (ERR) = h_errno; (HP) = TMP; }
src/util/support/fake-addrinfo.c:956:            p = inet_ntoa (sinp->sin_addr);
src/tests/gss-threads/gss-client.c:106:    hp = gethostbyname(host);
src/tests/misc/test_getsockname.c:69:    if ((host = gethostbyname(hostname)) == (struct hostent *) 0) {
src/tests/misc/test_getsockname.c:79:    printf("s_sock.sin_addr is %s\n", inet_ntoa(s_sock.sin_addr));
src/tests/misc/test_getsockname.c:114:    printf("My interface address is: %s\n", inet_ntoa(c_sock.sin_addr));
src/lib/krb5/os/localaddr.c:1480:        hostrec = gethostbyname (host);
src/lib/krb5/os/t_std_conf.c:101:            printf(" inet:%s/%d", inet_ntoa(s_sin->sin_addr),
src/lib/rpc/clnt_generic.c:65:  h = gethostbyname(hostname);
src/lib/rpc/getrpcport.c:53:    if ((hp = gethostbyname(host)) == NULL)
src/lib/rpc/clnt_simple.c:103:          if ((hp = gethostbyname(host)) == NULL)
src/lib/rpc/unit-test/client.c:127:     h = gethostbyname(host);
src/lib/rpc/unit-test/server.c:178:         inet_ntoa(rqst->rq_xprt->xp_raddr.sin_addr),
src/lib/rpc/unit-test/server.c:211:     a = inet_ntoa(addr->sin_addr);
src/lib/rpc/unit-test/server.c:224:     a = inet_ntoa(rqst->rq_xprt->xp_raddr.sin_addr);
Comment 15 RHEL Program Management 2023-05-03 07:28:33 UTC 
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.
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