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dnsdist: Insert the response into the ringbuffer right after sending it #8003

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@rgacogne rgacogne commented Jul 1, 2019

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The current code could have tried to read a new query before coming back to the insertion, resetting the state in the process and leading to recording a wrong backend or worse, to a NULL-pointer dereference if the new query was dropped or self-answered (no backend then).

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The current code could have tried to read a new query before coming
back to the insertion, resetting the state in the process and leading
to recording a wrong backend or worse, to a NULL-pointer dereference
if the new query was dropped or self-answered (no backend then).
@rgacogne rgacogne added this to the dnsdist-1.4.0 milestone Jul 1, 2019
@rgacogne rgacogne requested a review from chbruyand July 1, 2019 12:12
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LGTM.

@rgacogne rgacogne merged commit 00d252a into PowerDNS:master Jul 2, 2019
@rgacogne rgacogne deleted the dnsdist-fix-crash-ringuffer-insertion branch July 2, 2019 22:05
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