Re: [PATCH] getlogin_r: return early when linux sentinel value is set

[Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Depends on whether you want the linux __getlogin_r to fall back to the
> generic __getlogin_r.

Thanks, updated patch below:

From 04a50b5ee857aa33e1527d70f0676b6daf5a036c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:46:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] getlogin_r: return early when linux sentinel value is set

When there is no login uid Linux sets /proc/self/loginid to the sentinel
value of, (uid_t) - 1. If this is set we can return early and avoid
needlessly looking up the sentinel value in any configured nss
databases.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3399e567b8..1ceff1c094 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-03-20  Jesse Hathaway  <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org>  (tiny change)
+
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getlogin_r.c (__getlogin_r_loginuid): return early
+ when linux sentinel value is set.
+
 2018-03-20  Samuel Thibault  <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

  * manual/errno.texi (EOWNERDEAD, ENOTRECOVERABLE): Remove errno
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getlogin_r.c
b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getlogin_r.c
index 73ea14c8f9..1f90c1ca2d 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getlogin_r.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getlogin_r.c
@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ __getlogin_r_loginuid (char *name, size_t namesize)
    endp == uidbuf || *endp != '\0'))
     return -1;

+  /* If there is no login uid, linux sets /proc/self/loginid to the sentinel
+     value of, (uid_t) - 1, so check if that value is set and return early to
+     avoid making unneeded nss lookups. */
+  if (uid == (uid_t) - 1)
+    {
+      __set_errno (ENXIO);
+      return ENXIO;
+    }
+
   struct passwd pwd;
   struct passwd *tpwd;
   int result = 0;