Thank you for the patch, David.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:53 AM <crash-utility-request@redhat.com> wrote:
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:10:16 -0400
From: David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com>
To: crash-utility@redhat.com
Cc: David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com>
Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH 2/2] remote.c: Replace gethostbyname()
        with getaddrinfo()
Message-ID: <20220324151016.202675-3-dcantrell@redhat.com>
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Handle AF_INET6 in addition to AF_INET addresses.  Use getaddrinfo()
in place of gethostbyname() along with the other IPv6-capable
networking functions.  gethostbyname() is present in POSIX.1-2001 but
was removed in POSIX.1-2008 recommending getaddrinfo() instead.

Signed-off-by: David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com>
---
 remote.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 67d6f17..c9f73c2 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -71,9 +71,10 @@ struct remote_context *rc = &remote_context;
 int
 main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-        int c, sockfd, newsockfd, clilen;
+        int c, hp, sockfd, newsockfd, clilen;
         struct sockaddr_in serv_addr, cli_addr;
-        struct hostent *hp;
+        struct addrinfo hints;
+        struct addrinfo *result;
         ushort tcp_port;
         char hostname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN];

@@ -112,9 +113,18 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)

        console("hostname: %s\n", hostname);

-        if ((hp = gethostbyname(hostname)) == NULL) {
-               console("gethostbyname failed: %s\n", hstrerror(h_errno));
-                perror("gethostbyname");
+        memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
+        hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+        hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;

I would suggest having the same socktype with the socket(xx, SOCK_STREAM), although it doesn't affect the result.

In addition, I got the following warnings, could you please remove those two unused variables from the remote.c?

$make warn
remote.c: In function ‘is_remote_daemon’:
remote.c:1935:32: warning: unused variable ‘ip’ [-Wunused-variable]
 1935 |                struct in_addr *ip;
      |                                ^~
remote.c:1870:35: warning: unused variable ‘rp’ [-Wunused-variable]
 1870 |         struct addrinfo *result, *rp;
      |                                   ^~

Thanks.
Lianbo

+        hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
+        hints.ai_protocol = 0;
+        hints.ai_canonname = NULL;
+        hints.ai_addr = NULL;
+        hints.ai_next = NULL;
+
+        if ((hp = getaddrinfo(hostname, NULL, &hints, &result)) != 0) {
+               console("getaddinfo failed: %s\n", gai_strerror(hp));
+                perror("getaddrinfo");
                 exit(1);
         }

@@ -125,14 +135,15 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)

        console("<daemon %d initiated>\n", getpid());

-        if ((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
-                exit(1);
-
         BZERO((char *)&serv_addr, sizeof(serv_addr));
         serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
-        BCOPY(hp->h_addr, (char *)&serv_addr.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
         serv_addr.sin_port = htons(tcp_port);
+        BCOPY(result->ai_addr, (char *)&serv_addr.sin_addr, result->ai_addrlen);
+
+        if ((sockfd = socket(result->ai_family, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
+                exit(1);

+        freeaddrinfo(result);
         daemon_socket_options(sockfd);

         if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&serv_addr, sizeof(serv_addr)) < 0){
@@ -1854,7 +1865,9 @@ is_remote_daemon(char *dp)
        char sendbuf[BUFSIZE];
        char recvbuf[BUFSIZE];
        char *portp, *filep, *file1, *file2;
-       struct hostent *hp;
+       int hp;
+       struct addrinfo hints;
+       struct addrinfo *result, *rp;
         struct sockaddr_in serv_addr;
        char addrbuf[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];

@@ -1904,18 +1917,27 @@ is_remote_daemon(char *dp)
                fprintf(fp, " file2: [%s]\n", file2);
        }

-        if ((hp = gethostbyname(pc->server)) == NULL) {
+        memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
+        hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+        hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;

Ditto.
 
+        hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
+        hints.ai_protocol = 0;
+        hints.ai_canonname = NULL;
+        hints.ai_addr = NULL;
+        hints.ai_next = NULL;
+
+        if ((hp = getaddrinfo(pc->server, NULL, &hints, &result)) != 0) {
                 herror(pc->server);
-                error(FATAL, "gethostbyname [%s] failed\n", pc->server);
+                error(FATAL, "getaddrinfo [%s] failed: %s\n", pc->server, gai_strerror(hp));
         }

        if (CRASHDEBUG(1)) {
-               struct in_addr *ip;
-               char **listptr;
+               struct in_addr *ip;
+               struct addrinfo *listptr;

-               listptr = hp->h_addr_list;
-               while ((ip = (struct in_addr *) *listptr++) != NULL)
-                       printf("%s\n", inet_ntop(AF_INET, ip, addrbuf, INET_ADDRSTRLEN));
+               listptr = result;
+               for (listptr = result; listptr != NULL; listptr = listptr->ai_next)
+                      printf("%s\n", inet_ntop(listptr->ai_family, listptr->ai_addr, addrbuf, INET_ADDRSTRLEN));
        }

         if ((pc->sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
@@ -1924,20 +1946,21 @@ is_remote_daemon(char *dp)
         }

         BZERO((char *)&serv_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
-        serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
-        BCOPY(hp->h_addr, (char *)&serv_addr.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
+        serv_addr.sin_family = result->ai_family;
+        BCOPY(result->ai_addr, &serv_addr.sin_addr, result->ai_addrlen);
         serv_addr.sin_port = htons(pc->port);

         if (connect(pc->sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&serv_addr,
             sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) < 0) {
-                herror(hp->h_name);
-                error(FATAL, "connect [%s:%d] failed\n", hp->h_name, pc->port);
+                herror(pc->server);
+                error(FATAL, "connect [%s:%d] failed\n", pc->server, pc->port);
                 clean_exit(1);
         }

        if (CRASHDEBUG(1))
-               printf("connect [%s:%d]: success\n", hp->h_name, pc->port);
+               printf("connect [%s:%d]: success\n", pc->server, pc->port);

+       freeaddrinfo(result);
        remote_socket_options(pc->sockfd);

        /*
--
2.35.1