180494 - apparent code error in netwerk/dns/src/nsDnsService.cpp

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Nathan Kurz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

I've been having problems with slow DNS lookups, and spent a little
time wandering through the DNS code trying to figure out how it works.

While reading through netwerk/dns/src/nsDnsService.cpp I found what looks
to be a simple code error.  I have no idea if it is related to my problem,
but likes like it should be fixed.

873     if (PR_SUCCESS != status) {
874         if (nsDNSService::Reset());
875             status = DoSyncLookupInternal();
876     }

It looks like there is an extra semicolon at the end of line 874.  As a 
result, the call to DoSyncLookupInternal() will occur whether regardless of
the return value from Reset().  Or perhaps this is just a indent error
and the if() is redundant?  In any case, it is either wrong or misleading, ad
someone with knowledge should check this.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Looks like the code is question came about regarding bug #117628.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

yep

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

Attachment: v1 patch

yup, the extra semicolon is a typo.  i don't think this "bug" would actually
manifest itself in any kind of real problem though, but thanks for catching it!

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Comment on attachment 106510 [details] [diff] [review]
v1 patch

This would cause a slowdown if the dns request failed and we couldn't reset teh
dnsservice. Looking at code, that would mainly affect non-unix plaftorms. ITs
an uncommon case, anyway.

But hey, its a bug ;)

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

fixed-on-trunk

Comment 5

[benc]

VERIFIED/lxr:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&file=nsDnsService.cpp&root=/cvsroot&subdir=mozilla/netwerk/dns/src&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&rev1=1.113&rev2=1.114