commit e7d22db29cfdd2f1fb97a70a76fa53d151569945

Author: Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu@windriver.com>

Date:   Thu Sep 20 12:41:13 2018 +0200

    Linux gethostid: Check for NULL value from gethostbyname_r [BZ #23679]

    A NULL value can happen with certain gethostbyname_r failures.

    (cherry picked from commit 1214ba06e6771acb953a190091b0f6055c64fd25)

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c

index 2e20f034dc134cc7..ee0190e7f945db1f 100644

--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c

+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c

@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ gethostid (void)

     {

       int ret = __gethostbyname_r (hostname, &hostbuf,

 				   tmpbuf.data, tmpbuf.length, &hp, &herr;;

-      if (ret == 0)

+      if (ret == 0 && hp != NULL)

 	break;

       else

 	{

 	  /* Enlarge the buffer on ERANGE.  */

-	  if (herr == NETDB_INTERNAL && errno == ERANGE)

+	  if (ret != 0 && herr == NETDB_INTERNAL && errno == ERANGE)

 	    {

 	      if (!scratch_buffer_grow (&tmpbuf))

 		return 0;