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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Colm MacCarthaigh <co...@stdlib.net> on 2003/09/01 11:46:23 UTC

[patch] resend seg-fault in listen.c

*mutters something about not liking being responsible for a segfault*

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:22:32AM +0100, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> Setting lr to NULL causes a seg-fault if the port was already 
> in use, and didnt do what it was intended to anyway since the
> for loop terminates on lr == NULL.

Index: server/listen.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-2.0/server/listen.c,v
retrieving revision 1.91
diff -u -r1.91 listen.c
--- server/listen.c	25 Aug 2003 16:00:49 -0000	1.91
+++ server/listen.c	25 Aug 2003 23:18:54 -0000
@@ -395,8 +395,13 @@
                         ap_listeners = lr->next;
                     }
 
-                    /* So that previous becomes NULL in the next iteration */
-                    lr = NULL;
+		    /* Allthough we've removed ourselves from the list, 
+                     * we need to make sure that the next iteration won't
+                     * consider "previous" a working IPv6 '::' socket. 
+                     * Changing the family is enough to make sure the
+                     * conditions before make_sock() fail. 
+                     */
+                    lr->bind_addr->family = AF_INET;
 
                     continue;
                 }
-- 
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