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Bug 2122498

Summary: glibc: Fix nscd netlink cache invalidation if epoll is used
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: glibcAssignee: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Coufal <mcoufal>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 8.8CC: ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, mcoufal, mnewsome, pfrankli, sipoyare, skolosov
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Bugfix, Patch, Triaged
Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.28-213.el8 Doc Type: No Doc Update
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Last Closed: 2023-05-16 09:03:05 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2022-08-30 06:50:02 UTC
We should backport this upstream commit:

commit 02ca25fef2785974011e9c5beecc99b900b69fd7
Author: Fabian Vogt <fvogt>
Date:   Wed Jul 27 11:44:07 2022 +0200

    nscd: Fix netlink cache invalidation if epoll is used [BZ #29415]
    
    Processes cache network interface information such as whether IPv4 or IPv6
    are enabled. This is only checked again if the "netlink timestamp" provided
    by nscd changed, which is triggered by netlink socket activity.
    
    However, in the epoll handler for the netlink socket, it was missed to
    assign the new timestamp to the nscd database. The handler for plain poll
    did that properly, copy that over.
    
    This bug caused that e.g. processes which started before network
    configuration got unusuable addresses from getaddrinfo, like IPv6 only even
    though only IPv4 is available:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1041
    
    It's a bit hard to reproduce, so I verified this by checking the timestamp
    on calls to __check_pf manually. Without this patch it's stuck at 1, now
    it's increasing on network changes as expected.
    
    Signed-off-by: Fabian Vogt <fvogt>

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 09:03:05 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (glibc bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:2955